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The Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (JSAVA), is a contemporary multi-disciplinary scientific mouthpiece for Veterinary Science in South African and abroad. It provides veterinarians in South Africa and elsewhere in the world with current scientific information across the full spectrum of veterinary science, diseases or other conditions that are endemic in, or particularly relevant to sub-Saharan Africa.

Highlights

  • The 2nd meeting on a serious emerging parasitic disease, Taenia solium cysticercosis, was held recently in Tanzania

  • This was followed up at the meeting held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 25–26 June, 2003 which was attended by 37 persons from 11 countries

  • The recent meeting held in Dar es Salaam was organised and funded by the Cysticercosis Working Group in Eastern and Southern Africa (CWGESA) in cooperation with the Danish Bilharziasis Laborator y, the DANIDA funded ENRECA Livestock Helminths Research project in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the WHO/FAO Collaborating Centre for Parasitic Zoonoses in Denmark

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The 2nd meeting on a serious emerging parasitic disease, Taenia solium cysticercosis, was held recently in Tanzania. This meeting followed the August 2002 International Action Planning Workshop on the ‘Emergence of the Zoonotic Pork Tapeworm, Taenia solium, as an Important Economic and Public Health Problem in Developing Countries’ held in Arusha, Tanzania.

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