Abstract

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.

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  • THE 3RD MEETING ON A SERIOUS EMERGing parasitic disease in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region was held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 11–13 November 2004

  • The 2nd and 3rd meetings built on the decisions taken at the 2002 meeting to increase awareness and improve human health and well-being, pig production, the domestic food supply and export opportunities for pork in ESA through development and implementation of an appropriate and sustainable surveillance, prevention and control programme for cysticercosis caused by T. solium

  • The Maputo meeting was organised by the CWGESA with support from the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, the World Health Organization (WHO)/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Collaborating Centre for Parasitic Zoonoses in Denmark, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with headquarters in Nairobi, the Medical Research Council and USAID in South Africa

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Third meeting of the Cysticercosis Working Group in Eastern and Southern Africa takes place in Maputo THE 3RD MEETING ON A SERIOUS EMERGing parasitic disease in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region was held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 11–13 November 2004.

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