Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The World Health Organization sponsored an inter-regional conference on rabies, held on Coonoor, India, during July 1952, which gave intensive and individual training in complicated laboratory procedures to an international group. A consultant staff of eight members gave lectures, led discussions, and supervised the laboratory work of 47 participants. One of die objects of die conference was to teach standardized procedures in rabies tests so that results obtained in laboratories diroughout the world might be compared.
1 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VI, p. 326.
2 Ibid., VII, p. 13.
3 Ibid., p. 14.
4 Ibid., p. 15.
5 WHO Technical Report Series 1952, Numbers 55, 56, 58, 59.
6 See International Organization, VI, p. 653.
7 The Times (London) 12 12, 1952Google Scholar.