title: Rare diseases deserve attention.
abstract: In August, Eurosurveillance published reports of two outbreaks of trichinellosis detected in 1998 in France and Italy and linked with horse meat imported from Yugoslavia. This issue, otherwise dedicated to botulism, includes a report of a third one. Repor
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salmaso