The DECEMBER 2011 of the ISID NEWS (the official newsletter of the International Society for Infectious Diseases)
ISIDNEWS
An official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
15th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID)
The 15th ICID will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on June 13-16, 2012
The Abstract Submission Deadline is February 10, 2012. Submit your abstract now!
On-line Registration is also available.
Six Plenary Talks
Thirty Symposia
Four Oral Sessions
Meet-the-Expert Sessions
Updated Scientific Program
5th & 6th Plenary Speakers Confirmed
Dr. John David Clemens - Vaccines for Cholera, Shigellosis and Typhoid
Dr. Stephen D. Lawn - Confronting TB in the Era of HIV
Sanofi Pasteur Travel Grants for Awards for Latin American Women Physicians and Scientists.
For more information, go to http://www.isid.org/icid/awards.shtml
15th ICID Participating Organizations
For more information, go to http://www.isid.org/icid/ or Join the 15th ICID Mailing List
Call for Council Members
On the occasion of the 15th ICID in Bangkok, more than one-quarter of the ISID Council members will conclude their terms of service and the Society will have openings for Council members from all regions.
The Nominating Committee is actively seeking your recommendation for individuals who are interested in the activities of ISID and who would become involved with the Society in its various programs.
Membership Reminder
Subscription to the online International Journal of Infectious Diseases is free from June 2011 through May 2012. We urge you to sign up for access to the IJID if you have not already done so.
Instructions For Access can be found at http://www.isid.org/membership/free_ijidonline.shtml
ProMED-mail: A Central Program of ISID
·A Note to ProMED-mail Readers from Editor Larry Madoff: ProMED-mail brings you accurate, relevant, and timely emerging infectious disease reporting multiple times each day.
If, like 96% of readers, you think that ProMED-mail is important to your work and life please join me in giving generously to the 2011 Fall fundraising campaign now underway at http://www.isid.org/donate/netathon2011F.shtml
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·ABOUT ProMED-mail: ProMED-mail, a key program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, is an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those that may appear first in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed.
ISID Small Grant Program Reports
·Marlinang D. Siburian (Indonesia). "Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus in Minangkabau Ethnic Group of West Sumatera,Indonesia
·George M. Varghese (India). "Scrub Typhus: Clinical and Laboratory Manifestations, Genetic Variability and Outcome"
SAVE THE DATE for the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases (IMED 2013)
The 4th IMED will be held in Vienna, Austria on February 15-18, 2013
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