Planning for the unexpected: Ebola virus, Zika virus, what's next?

British Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 704-707

  Welfare, William ^a,b   Wright, Edward ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85007185953     PISSN: 17508460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hmed.2016.77.12.704     Document Type: Review

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