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Subject: [WNV-L] EID Conference Summaries & Proceedings
Date:
July 11, 2003
Posted by:
Lois Levitan (lcl3@cornell.edu)
Summaries of two conferences are reported in the July 2003 Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. Proceedings from both are on the web (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/). About 60 scientists, public health officials and clinicians gathered for the Southeast Center for Emerging Biologic Threats conference "West Nile Virus: Addressing a Regional Crisis" in Atlanta Georgia January 14-15 2003. An overview is given in EID 9 (7): 897-898. Proceedings are on the web at http://www.secenterbiothreats.org/west_nile.html. The West Nile Virus and Wildlife Health Workshop was hosted by the Smithsonian, National Audubon, USGS and USDA in Edgewater, Maryland, Feb 507, 2003. A conference summary is in EID 9(7): 898-899 (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no7/03-0277.htm ) and abstracts and a white paper are on the web at http://www.serc.si.edu/migratorybirds/current_events_fin.htm. -- Lois Levitan, PhD Program Leader Environmental Risk Analysis Program Department of Communication and Center for the Environment 213 Rice Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York USA 14853-5601 Phone: (607) 255-4765 Fax: (607) 255-0238 Email: LCL3@cornell.edu Web: http://environmentalrisk.cornell.edu