Designing an International Policy and Legal Framework for the Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases: First Steps

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Plotkin, Bruce Jay ^a   Kimball, Ann Marie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMERCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030632257     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970101     Document Type: Review

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