Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Occupational Medicine 2002 Durham, 1–4 July 2002.

The article discusses papers presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Occupational Medicine in Durham, England, from July 1 to 4, 2002. The first paper featured a project to develop software to predict the hazard of occupational asthma (OA). The second paper examined the health effects of the ocean dumping of chemical weapons on a fishing community in Italy. Another paper focused on the vaccination of health care workers against influenza.