Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Disease seventy fifth spring meeting: Oxford 1997.

Keble College, Oxford hosted the 75th spring meeting of the MSSVD from 3 to 6 July 1997. A chill reminder of past global catastrophe greeted the 320 delegates on the first morning-a huge dinosaur skeleton which dominates the concourse of the university museum where the main lectures were held. This set the scene for a meeting with a refreshingly global perspective. Themes of epidemiology, disease control, and the catastrophe of untreated or even untreatable infections ran through most of the 10 keynote addresses which we review here. In addition, 31 oral presentations were given and 62 posters presented.