Progress in Infectious Disease Control

Dr. Jarrett, President Tharp, Dr. Allenstein, Com-missioner Irvin, mem hers and guests of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners. It is a pleasure to be with you as you recognize our nation's bicentennial, and a special honor to be given this opportunity to reflect on some of your accomplishments as well as on some of the challenges of today and tomorrow in infectious disease control. We in New England have been celebrating the bicentennial since the first of this year. As our forefathers were engaged in the struggle for in-dependence fully a year and a half before the Declaration of Independence, so their descendents also forged ahead with full confidence that once again the rest of the country eventually would catch up.