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A workshop on the development of an attenuated vaccine for schistosomiasis was held. This report of the workshop briefly reviews the recent progress toward a vaccine and discusses further work that must be done in the areas of technical feasibility, safety, and logistics.
Address reprint requests to: Dr. J. A. Cook, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, 250 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017.
* The seventeen-member workshop was sponsored by The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and held in Mt. Kisco, New York, April 11, 1980. Members of the group: Mr. W. Van Allen Clark, The Sippican Corporation, Marion, MA; Dr. Joseph A. Cook, The Clark Foundation, New York, NY; Dr. John R. David, Robert Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA; Dr. L. K. Eveland, Institute of Pathology, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY; Mr. John Harryman, The Clark Foundation, New York, NY; Dr. D. A. Henderson, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Dr. Gene I. Higashi, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, MI; Dr. Donald B. Hoffman, Jr., Coral Gables, FL; Professor H. F. Hsu and Professor S. Y. Li Hsu, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Dr. Eric James, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Winches Farm Field Station, St. Albans, Herts, England; Dr. Adel Mahmoud, Division of Geographic Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Dr. Thomas A. Miller, Burroughs-Wellcome, Kansas City, KS; Dr. K. Darwin Murrell, Animal Parasitology Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD; Dr. S. Michael Phillips, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Dr. S. R. Smithers, National Institute of Medical Research, London, England; Dr. Margaret Stirewalt, Biomedical Research Institute, Rockville, MD; Dr. Martin Taylor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Winches Farm Field Station, St. Albans, Herts, England; Dr. Georgio Torigianni, Immunology Section, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr. Franz von Lichtenberg, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA.
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