14º International Symposium of the World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians - WAVLD 2009

Together with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (WAVLD), we are organising an interesting Scientific Programme, which we hope will address the most interesting aspects within the challenges faced by our increasingly global world in the field of animal health. We will make a special emphasis on emerging and re-emerging diseases, many of them with a zoonotic character, that not only entail a clear health risk, but also bring about a social alarm that must be offset with clear information and precise actions in times of crisis. It is our obligation to fight in order to reduce the gap between the developed world and the less favoured countries, and especially, for something that should be aright of all the inhabitants in the world: the right to a good health status.