Skip the Trip: Air Travelers' Behavioral Responses to Pandemic Influenza

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Fenichel, Eli P ^a   Kuminoff, Nicolai V ^b   Chowell, Gerardo ^b,c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INTERNET; MASS MEDIUM; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; RISK REDUCTION; SWINE INFLUENZA; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PANDEMICS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875183117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058249     Document Type: Article

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