Dear colleagues:

Over the last years, and to a worldwide extent, a remarkable increase in communicable diseases is being observed mainly due, among several aspects, to climatic changes, natural disasters, conflicts, poverty, malnutrition, as well as to the appearance of drug-resistant pathogens and of insecticide-resistant vectors; all this together causes severe damages not only to human health but also to animal health. Motivated by this, we are making a call to all the parasitologists, bacteriologists, mycologists, virologists, infectologists, zoonologists, tropicalists, specialists from different disciplines interested in in these topics to gather, present and discuss, in several work sessions, about our experiences on recent advances and new discoveries aimed at controlling and eradicating these threats to humankind.

For the above-mentioned reasons, we are sending you a heartfelt invitation to participate in the VIII Central American and Caribbean Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine to be held on December 4-7, 2007, at the "Pedro Kourí" Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana, Cuba.

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