Public Health Risk from the Avian H5N1 Influenza Epidemic

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5673, 2004, Pages 968-969

  Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Fraser, Christophe ^a   Donnelly, Christi A ^a   Ghani, Azra C ^a   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL WELFARE; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MATHEMATICS; PATHOGENICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; INFLUENZA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

EID: 2442538159     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096898     Document Type: Short Survey

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