Hot spots in a wired world: WHO surveillance of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 345-353

  Heymann, David L ^a   Rodier, Guénaël R ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0035755250     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(01)00148-7     Document Type: Review

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