Madison 13 Octobre 1993
Yesterday I received a letter from Egypt that I reproduce
below. It was typed and corrected on a clothe ribbon
type-writer meaning that they probably don't have even
word processing capabilities (?).
My answer was that I can help him with computer visualization
but I don't even know if they have access to computers, let
alone Macintoshes.
In my reply I also promised to put a note on the Internet
for them as I know that Egypt is connected only to
Bitnet.
Anyway, if you can help those people, even so a little it
probably would help them a LOT more than you think.
I retype here is the letter, addressed to me:
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AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY
CAIRO - A. R. E.
Dr. Jean-Yves Sgro
Institute for Molecular Virology
University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Madison , Wi 53 706 U.S.A.
Dear Dr. Sgro,
I read the announcement of your Teaching Virology to
Undergraduate students activity in ASV 1993 meeting. Egypt
is a country representing evolution of virus epidemics.
Teaching virology to undergraduate Medical Students in
Egypt is realy problematic. More often it is done as a "dry
course" leaving a lot to the imagination of the student, who
can go stray. We have very little means to show cell culture
infexted with polio, herpes, adeno viruses for cytopathic
changes; or show a hemagglutination reaction or an ELISA
plate. Therefore, I plea to our group to extent a helping
hand to us and did us in developing local teaching facilities
and or develope a prototype course program for both the
undergraduate and the post graduate clinicians refresher
courses. Our goal is rising student awareness of virus
diseases. Sincerely Yours
{signature here}
prof. Kouka S.E.Abdel-Wahab
Head Department of Microbiology
Faculty of Medecine
Al-Azhar University
Correspondence adress 32 babel Street,
Dokky, Cairo, EGYPT.
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I know that the idea of creating a pool for a "core" course
outline for undergraduates (or graduates) already appeared
on this news-group but it did not come to a concrete solution.
This will may-be help some people not as fortunate as us
around the world.
So if someone has electronically or otherwise available
material that they can share I can transfer the information
or you can send it directly to the correspondance address
in EGYPT.
Thank you for them!
Jean-Yves Sgro
P.S. REMINDER: my anonymous ftp is still working well, there
are in general about 10 connections a day and no complains!!!
So I assume that this is useful.
P.P.S I am working on creating a video that I plan to finish for
ASV94 to be held here in Madison. But I'll post again about
that!
Sincrely,
Jean-Yves Sgro, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist
Institute for Molecular Virology
Robert M. Bock Laboratories
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1525, Linden Drive
Madison Wi 53706 -USA-
e-mail: sgro at macc.wisc.edu
anonymous ftp: rhino.bocklabs.wisc.edu
telephone: (608) 262 - 7464
facsimile: (608) 262 - 7414
[USA International country code is 1]
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