others assignees in insolvency and executed and delivered to them an assignment of all the personal property of the insolvent. Under the state statute the assignment operated as a conveyance of all the debtor's property "which he could have lawfully sold, assigned or conveyed". Thereafter, and while the ship was still on the high seas, one Robinson, a New York creditor, sued the partnership in a New York court and obtained a warrant of attachment against its property in accordance with the local law. A few days afterwards the ship arrived in port and was attached by the sheriff. Thereupon the assignees in insolvency intervened in the action and claimed the ship. The question was whether the Massachusetts assignees or the attaching creditor had prior rights. It wasMeasles eradication: recommendations from a meeting cosponsored by the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and CDC.
Recent successes in interrupting indigenous transmission of measles virus in the Americas and in the United Kingdom prompted the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and CDC to convene a meeting in July, 1996 to consider the feasibility of global measles eradication. Presentations at the meeting included an overview of global measles control and elimination efforts; detailed reviews of successful measles elimination efforts in Latin America, the English-speaking Caribbean, Canada, and the United States; surveillance for clinical disease; laboratory tools for antibody detection and virus identification; and other factors that might influence the feasibility of disease eradication. With this background information, meeting organizers asked participants to address