Why is the world so poorly prepared for a pandemic of hypervirulent avian influenza?

Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 113-132

  Christophersen, Olav Albert ^a   Haug, Anna ^b  

^a Ragnhild Schibbyes Vei 26   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Emergency preparedness; Risk estimates; Virulence evolution; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ALLELE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FATALITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL SECURITY; SPANISH INFLUENZA; THINKING; THREAT; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WAR;

AVES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 33845659112     PISSN: 0891060X     EISSN: 16512235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08910600600866544     Document Type: Review

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