Pandemic influenza: Risk of multiple introductions and the need to prepare for them

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0769-0773

  Mills, Christina E ^a   Robins, James M ^a,b   Bergstrom, Carl T ^a,b   Lipsitch, Marc ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIRD; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33745589244     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135     Document Type: Review

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