Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Dr. Karen Barlett hosted The Challenge of Low Prevalence Infectious Diseases: Towards an International Research Agenda at the Sutton Place Hotel. This symposium brought together international researchers, decision makers, practitioners and XX to discuss cryptoccacus gattii, Lyme disease and more rare infectious diseases.  On the 16th, several participants attended a fieldtrip to Rathtrevor park, the epi-centre of the c. gattii outbreak to take field samples and learn more about the research being conducted in BC.