Join Drs. Alves, Fiddes, Asin, and Yabe for a workshop on basic mechanisms of disease with an emphasis on veterinary public health and transboundary diseases of significance to Namibia.
This interactive workshop will be presented in a case-based manner with group discussions for optimal learning and highlighting how these diseases might appear in animal populations and veterinary public health in general.
Participants will work through mechanisms of postmortem examinations (i.e. necropsies), doing hands-on practical exercises, to include the entire necropsy procedure as well as sampling and packaging. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Location: in person only at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia
Registration is free but required. To register please contact the Veterinary Association of Namibia (VAN) at sercretary@van.org.na
March 28
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March 29
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March 30
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Find more information on the Global Health Pathology Network initiative here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300985817717771
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