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NEW HEAD OF THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES GROUP-EMPRESThe FAO Director-General has appointed Dr Juan Lubroth, a United States citizen, as Senior Officer, Infectious Diseases Group-EMPRES. He succeeds Mark Rweyemamu, and will formally assume his duties in February 2002. Juan comes to FAO by way of the United States Department of Agriculture's Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where he worked as Head of the Reagents and Vaccine Services Unit, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.
MINISTERIAL MEETING ON FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE - GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST FMD PROPOSEDFAO member countries and organizations that participated in the `'Ministerial Meeting on the Experiences of FMD'', held during the thirty-first session of the FAO Conference, have all lent their support to the call for a global partnership to fight the devastating effects of FMD in the world. During the Ministerial meeting, it was observed that FMD goes beyond a vet-erinary issue and that its negative con-sequences are not limited to the agri-culture sector alone, but also encompass the livelihoods of rural people, as demonstrated re-cently by the FMD outbreak in Europe.
COMPLICATIONS ARISING FROM THE USE OF RECOMBINANT VACCINIA VACCINES IN IMMUNOSUPPRESSED PEOPLESome concern about the use of recombinant vaccinia vaccines in immunosuppressed people has been brought to the fore again following the contamination of a woman from Ohio, United States, with the recombinant vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein virus. |