Newsletter of the World Veterinary Poultry Association |
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President´s message I am pleased to announce that the WVPA now has a website on the internet. Dr. Kaleta, secretarytreasurer for WVPA, has overseen this project and our homepage can be reached at http://www.WVPA.net for this purpose. In September of 1999 members of the WVPA participated in the 26th World Veterinary Congress held in Lyon, France. |
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However, the poultry sessions were poorly attended and the decision was made in the bureau and business meetings of the WVPA to discontinue our affiliation with the World Veterinary Association. As previously announced, in the future, WVPA congresses will be held every 2 nd year. Plans for the 12th congress to be held in Cairo, Egypt in September of 2001 are well underway. Please see the announcement in this newsletter. Approval was given to the USA to organize the 13 th congress of the association in Denver, Colorado in July of 2003. The venue for the congress in 2005 will be determined at the meeting in Cairo. The membership of WVPA now exceeds 1400 with 33 national branches. Recently, branches were formed in the Czech Republic, India and Slovakia. We encourage other countries to form branches. Presently we have no national branches in Latin American countries, even though abstracts of all papers published in both Avian Pathology and Avian Diseases are translated into Spanish. We intend to make a greater effort to bring these and other countries into our association. The news received from various countries for this newsletter is greatly appreciated and gives a global view of trends in poultry diseases and their control. We wish you success in this new millennium and look forward to seeing you in Cairo. J. Lloyd Spencer |
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