Greenland as a plausible springboard for trans-Atlantic avian influenza spread

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1460-1461

  Shoham, Dany ^a   Rogers, Scott O ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; GREENLAND; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GREENLAND; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; MODELS, ANIMAL;

AVES;

EID: 33748971532     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.05.039     Document Type: Letter

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