Foot and mouth disease: The human consequences: The health consequences are slight, the economic ones huge

BMJ

Volumn 322, Issue 7286, 2001, Pages 565-566

  Prempeh, Henry ^a   Smith, Robert ^a   Müller, Berit ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; APHTHOVIRUS; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PICORNAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; COMMERCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0035835931     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.322.7286.565     Document Type: Editorial

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