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The editorial team of Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) would like to wish all our readers and contributors a very Merry Christmas, and all the best for 1999.

This is the last issue ofCDI for 1998 and thus it is timely for us to express our thanks to all those who have contributed articles, surveillance reports, correspondence, commentaries, editorials, outbreak reports and data to CDI during 1998. We would also like to thank the article reviewers for their valued time and expert comment.

During 1998 we have lost the services of many of the people who helped to put CDI together. These include Ross Andrews, Scott Crerar, Graeme Oliver, Htoo Myint (our computer guru), Margaret Curran (who was the Assistant Editor), Corrine Rann (Deputy Editor) and Bronwen Harvey (Editor). We wish these people well in their later endeavours.


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 22, No 11, 29 October 1998.