Avian influenza: A public health risk for New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1192, 2004, Pages

  Jennings, Lance C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POULTRY FARMING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POULTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NEW ZEALAND; POULTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

EID: 3843144263     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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