Prevention of pandemic influenza after mass gatherings - Learning from Hajj

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 79-80

  Haworth, Elizabeth ^a   Rashid, Harunor ^b,c   Booy, Robert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; PANDEMIC;

EID: 77749301846     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2010.090463     Document Type: Editorial

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