Differential mortality rates by ethnicity in 3 influenza pandemics over a century, New Zealand

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-77

  Wilson, Nick ^a   Barnard, Lucy Telfar ^a   Summers, Jennifer A ^a   Shanks, G Dennis ^b   Baker, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1890 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; 1919 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC; 2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; ASIAN INFLUENZA; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION RISK; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROPREVALENCE; SOLDIER; SPANISH INFLUENZA;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PANDEMICS;

EID: 84856575454     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.110035     Document Type: Article

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