Pandemic disease in Russia: From black death to AIDS

Eurasian Geography and Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-202

  Cromley, Ellen K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Death; Cholera; Diptheria; Epidemics; HIV AIDS; Infectious disease; Influenza; Plague; Public health system; Russia; Tuberculosis; Typhus

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77950323170     PISSN: 15387216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1539-7216.51.2.184     Document Type: Article

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