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E J L Soulsby

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History of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP).

Forty years ago the first meeting of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitiology (WAAVP) was held in Hannover, Germany. We now have a thriving, internationally recognized organization; the meetings attract hundreds of scientists, attendance is increasing with almost every meeting. It is a useful time to review our beginnings, our development and our future. Our history has been one of innovation and activity and contributed to by its members in important areas of veterinary parasitology.

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Antibiotic resistance--an evolving problem.

In 1998, an influential report on antimicrobial resistance from the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology highlighted the threat posed to public health by resistance, and called for products to be used more prudently in both human and veterinary medicine. Here, Lord Soulsby, who chaired the Lords' committee on antimicrobials, and Richard Wise, who advised the committee and is now chairman of the Government's Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance, consider what has been achieved since then, along with the challenges that remain.

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