Ninety years on: What we still need to learn from "Black November" 1918 about pandemic influenza

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1285, 2008, Pages

  Wilson, Nick ^a   Baker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEATH; DISASTER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LETTER; MAORI; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PANDEMIC; ABORIGINE; HISTORY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

EID: 56649110969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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