Mandatory polio vaccination for travellers: Protecting global public health

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9930, 2014, Pages 1695-1697

  Rutter, Paul D ^a   Donaldson, Liam J ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFGHANISTAN; CAMEROON; EMPORIATRICS; HUMAN; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAKISTAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOMALIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MANDATORY PROGRAM; TRAVEL;

DISEASE ERADICATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84900829925     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60756-X     Document Type: Note

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