Bioterrorism and the people: How to vaccinate a city against panic

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 217-223

  Glass, Thomas A ^a   Schoch Spana, Monica ^a,b  

^a Center on Aging and Health and the Department of Epidemiology   (Australia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CITY; CIVIL DISORDER; DISASTER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PANIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOTERRORISM; CIVIL DEFENSE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PANIC;

EID: 0037079910     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338711     Document Type: Article

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