How World War 1 changed global attitudes to war and infectious diseases

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9955, 2014, Pages 1699-1707

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a,b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ARMY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; INFECTION; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PARATYPHOID FEVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION; WAR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTORY; INFLUENZA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MILITARY MEDICINE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALARIA; MILITARY MEDICINE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TYPHOID FEVER; WAR; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 84920861919     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61786-4     Document Type: Review

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