Papers from the 1999 biennial conference of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, held in Key West, FL. Although based in the US, the organization sees its mission as preventing, controlling, and eradicating tropical diseases internationally. The "new world order" of the title refers to recent economic, political, and societal changes that form the backdrop for advances in medicine and technology. Papers range globally, touching on specific conditions as well as topics including world trade and its impact on the spread of diseases, the threat of bioterrorism, future perspectives on research, conservation medicine, ethnoveterinary medicine and indigenous pharmacopoeia, and the development of techniques such as molecular probes. Contributors are indexed, but subjects are not. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less