Risk to tourists posed by wild mammals in South Africa

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 172-179

  Durrheim, David N ^a   Leggat, Peter A ^b  

^a Mpumalanga Department of Communicable Disease Control   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; HUMAN; INJURY; LION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAVEL;

EID: 0032847729     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.1999.tb00856.x     Document Type: Article

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