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Mon, Oct 21 2002 9:48 PM AEST

Vaccine conference to focus on research treatments

Vaccines will be the focus of a major Australian conference starting today at the Academy of Science in Canberra.

The speakers at the Vaccines and Vaccinations in the 21st Century Conference will focus on the latest research on treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and HIV-AIDS.

Conference co-organiser Professor Ian Ramshaw, from the John Curtin School of Medical Research, says researchers will be sharing some of their latest breakthroughs.

"This is essentially looking at different aspects of the same problem, in other words, vaccination against infectious diseases, cancer and other allergic diseases as well, so there's common technologies and its very important that we get together and talk along those lines," he said.

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