Sharing H5N1 viruses to stop a global influenza pandemic

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1712-1714

  Garrett, Laurie ^a   Fidler, David P ^b  

^a Women and US Foreign Policy Program   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; THAILAND; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUCK; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLITICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUCKS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POLITICS; VIROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 36849035827     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040330     Document Type: Short Survey

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