People's Daily Online Malaysian Scandinavian International Conference on Infectious and Tropical Diseases 2006 will kick off in Sabah state in eastern Malaysia next month.
The seminar will bring together health and medical experts from Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden and the World Health Organization, said spokesman of University Malaysia Sabah campus on Friday.
Representatives from Malaysia, Thailand, India and other countries will also participate in the conference slated for Nov. 16- 19, said senior consultant physician and infectious/tropical diseases professor Georg on Friday.
"Among the papers to be presented are mostly on tropical diseases which affect Malaysia such as dengue, hepatitis, AIDS, infectious diarrhea, tuberculosis and avian influenza," Gossius said in a news conference in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah state capital.
The conference aims not only to promote the university's School of Medicine on the world academic map, but also functions as a public relations campaign for Sabah as well as Visit Malaysia Year 2007, said Gossius.
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