Zika virus and microcephaly: Why is this situation a PHEIC?

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10020, 2016, Pages 719-721

  Heymann, David L ^a,b   Hodgson, Abraham ^c   Sall, Amadou Alpha ^d   Freedman, David O ^e   Staples, J Erin ^f   Althabe, Fernando ^g   Baruah, Kalpana ^h   Mahmud, Ghazala ⁱ   Kandun, Nyoman ^j   Vasconcelos, Pedro F C ^k   Bino, Silvia ^l   Menon, K U ^m  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^h GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

ⁱ QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^j MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Indonesia)

^k INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^l Institute of Public Health   (Albania)

^m National Resilience Division   (Singapore)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; CHIKUNGUNYA; DENGUE; FATALITY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY; HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EMERGENCIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84959096835     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00320-2     Document Type: Note

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