The European Commission has approved a financial package to fight animal diseases in the EU. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), a family of diseases of humans and animals characterised by the spongy degeneration of the brain with severe and fatal neurological signs and symptoms, and a range of other animal infections that impact on animal and human health. Eighty-two programmes have been submitted to tackle 10 major animal diseases, with the EU contributing over €55 million.

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