Emerging Infectious Diseases
[Volume 5 No.3 / May - June 1999]


News and Notes

54th International Northwestern Conference on Diseases in Nature
Communicable to Man

August 15-18, 1999

The 54th International Northwestern Conference on Diseases in Nature
Communicable to Man at Utah State University, Logan, UT, is scheduled for
August 15-18, 1999. Call for abstracts in the following general categories
are proposed, but may be modified: viral zoonoses, bacterial zoonoses,
water and foodborne infections, vector-borne diseases, and curiosa et
exotica. The deadline for abstracts is April 15, 1999.

The R.R. Parker Memorial Address will be presented by Jesse Goodman, Senior
Advisor for Medical Programs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. To obtain
program announcements and registration forms, make hotel reservations, or
submit abstracts, contact one of the following persons: Dhitinut
Ratnapradipa, scientific program coordinator, e-mail:
dratnapr@health.utah.edu; or Robert Elbel, meeting coordinator, e-mail:
elbel@bioscience.utah.edu, tel:(801) 581-4816, fax: (801) 581-4668. Program
information is also available at the following web site:
http://www.mosquito.org./upcoming.html.

Emerging Infectious Diseases
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

URL: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/EID/vol5no3/ascii/newsnotes.txt

Please note that figures and equations are not available in ASCII format; 
their placement within the text is noted by [fig] and [eq], respectively. 
Greek symbols are spelled out. The following codes are used: 
(ft) for footnote; (sup) for superscript; (sub) for subscript; 
>/= for greater than or equal to.