The Cysticercosis Working Group in Eastern and Southern Africa meets again.

Extracted from text ... To the editor - Aan die redakteur Pres s Releas e The Cysticercosis Working Group in Eastern and Southern Africa meets again 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. Last year's workshop was a landmark meeting attended by 90 of the world's experts in this field. The aims of the workshop were to increase awareness to improve human health and well-being, pig production, the domestic food supply and export opportunities for pork ..