Vaccine

Greece’s national drug agency (EOF) announced on Wednesday it would temporary ban the export of dozens of pharmaceuticals to the EU and third countries in an effort to avert a possible shortage caused by capital controls imposed on Greeks banks for the past 3 weeks. The agency said a ban on 73 drugs was an emergency measure to protect public health.

Romania's Health Ministry is working on a draft project to ban unvaccinated children from attending nurseries, kindergartens or schools. Under the plan, parents could also be fined if they do not vaccinate their children.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled parental permission is not necessary for the vaccination of babies and children, following a case where the parents of a one-year-old baby refused compulsory vaccinations for their child. 

Turkey will be donating 100,000 vaccines to Bulgaria in order to ensure that the preventative procedures will b uphold according to the schedule outlined by the Healthcare Ministry.

The announcement was made by healthcare Minister Petar Moskov at a news conference Wednesday.

In return, Bulgaria will be supplying Turkey with anti-tuberculosis vaccines.

Vaccination now mandatory for all children in Serbia

BELGRADE -- A written consent of children's legal guardians is no longer necessary to inoculate children in Serbia after parliament passed a law making this obligatory.

Deputies in the Serbian National Assembly on Friday adopted a draft bill amending the Law on Protection of the Population from Contagious Diseases.

All parliamentary groups back obligatory vaccination bill

BELGRADE -- Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar told MPs on Thursday that new legislation to make vaccination obligatory is a matter of the children's and the nation's health.

Serbia to make vaccination of children obligatory

BELGRADE -- The upcoming changes to the Law on Protection against Contagious Diseases will align it with EU standards and make the vaccination of children compulsory.

This was announced by Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar late last week.

Romania will carry out a bluetongue disease vaccine campaign in 2015, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constatin announced on Sunday at the public television TVR. He also mentioned short-term diplomatic efforts to convince foreign countries not to block imports from Romania.

The European Union put up 24.4 million euros Thursday in a "race against time" to find Ebola vaccines and treatments as deaths from the disease mount in the worst affected countries.
      

United Nations agencies said a measles vaccination campaign in northern Syria had been halted after 15 children died following inoculations