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In Memoriam
Professor dr Jaroslav KULDA
It is with sadness that the EFP announces the passing of Prof. Jaroslav Kulda on June 11, 2023, at the age of 89. Prof. Kulda was an internationally respected parasitologist, a pioneer in hydrogenosome research, highly regarded teacher at the Charles University, Prague, recipient of the WFP Distinguished Achievement Award in 2010, former long-time president of the Czech Society for Parasitology, scientific and moral authority, and a wonderful person. He will be missed.

Future events | Announcements
16th International Conference on Trichinellosis
30 Aug – 1 Sep 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia
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30th Annual Meeting
of the German Society for Parasitology (DGP 2023)
15-17 March 2023 in Gissen – German
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Registration to the annual meeting of The European Veterinary Parasitology College is OPEN!
The meeting will be held at the National Veterinary School of Alfort (ENVA), France, 29-30 June 2023.
This will be an opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EVPC inaugural meeting which was held at ENVA on 27 September 2003

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A new organization!
The mission of the International Association for Food and Waterborne Parasitology (IAFWP) is to promote and facilitate research and collaboration among those who are interested in food and waterborne parasitology for the generation and exchange information in order to advance public health parasitology, and to foster the application of such knowledge into approaches, methods, guidelines, recommendations and other outputs for use by standard-setting bodies, regulatory authorities, food producers, consumers and other stakeholders in reducing the global burden of parasites transmitted by food or water.
A new journal! “Food and Waterborne Parasitology”
Published on behalf of the International Association for Food and Waterborne Parasitology
Editor-in-Chief: Alvin Gajadhar
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/food-and-waterborne-parasitology
EFP NEWS letters (see bottom of the page for downloads)
HERACLES a European colloborative project for Echinococcosis
http://www.heracles-fp7.eu/index.html
HERACLES (Human cystic Echinococcosis ReseArch in Central and Eastern Socities) is designed to provide new insights into parasite/host relationship associated with the epidemiology, clinical manifestation, parasite infectivity, host immunity, improvement of therapeutic treatment and new tools for the detection, diagnosis and follow-up of CE. HERACLES will translate the research results into affordable and easy-to-use, point-of-care commercial tools (POC-LOC) for its use in less favored Eastern European countries (EEC) affected by CE. We will deliver a methodology and an amount of data, exploitable in new diagnostic tools for epidemiological surveillance in animals, and diagnosis and follow up in humans. Moreover, the European Registry of Cystic Echinococcosis (ERCE) will be created to provide baseline data for future risk calculations and to establish a prospective case retrieval.