Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
Dr. Mike Meredith who contributes to Farmtalking and this message board and who's advice and information has been invaluable over the past months, has been presented with an International award by ProMed.

It's very well deserved and so many thanks and congratulations to Mike!

The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is a world-wide organization dedicated to improving the care and control of infectious diseases.

In 1994, ISID launched a now-famous Internet-based system called "ProMED-mail", dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information and discussion about outbreaks of infectious diseases that affect human or animal health. Over the years ProMED-mail has grown to the point where it is now received in 155 countries by 24,000 microbiologists, medical practitioners, epidemiologists, public health professionals, veterinarians and others with an interest in infectious disease epidemics.

ProMED-mail uses electronic communication to provide free, up-to-date and reliable news, information and discussion on disease outbreaks around the world, seven days a week and free of political or commercial constraints.

Each year ProMED presents Awards to honour individuals for Excellence in Disease Outbreak Reporting. This year there have been three awards:

1. Dr. Pablo Nart, virologist and pathology resident in Veterinary Medicine at Glasgow University. Dr. Nart holds an MSc in International Animal Health from the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh . Dr. Nart has been a prolific contributor to Promed news and discussion.

2. Dr. Mike Meredith, of the Pig Disease Information Centre, United Kingdom. The award citation stated that in spite of desperate funding problems, he contributed daily updates throughout the world's worst foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic (European Union, 2001), providing regular informed comment as well as detailed news.

3. Steve Apatow, President and Founder of the Humanitarian Resource Institute, who contributed valuable information on U.S. government responses and control protocols during the 2001 FMD epidemic.

Weblinks

International Society for Infectious Diseases: www.isid.org/about/ ProMED-mail: www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1950:335134
Pig Disease Information Centre: www.pighealth.com/Admin/about.htm Humanitarian Resource Institute: www.humanitarian.net