EcoHealth and the black death in the year of the rat

EcoHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-100

  Zhang, Shu Yi ^a   Yu, Lizhong ^a   Daszak, Peter ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Consortium for Conservation Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; PANDEMIC; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COMMERCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FLEAS; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PLAGUE; RATS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH; YERSINIA PESTIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 51749088120     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-008-0181-1     Document Type: Editorial

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