Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them

Containing an emerging influenza H5N1 pandemic in its earliest stages may be feasible, but containing multiple introductions of a pandemic-capable strain would be more difficult. Mills and colleagues argue that multiple introductions are likely, especially if risk of a pandemic is high.

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Autores principales: Mills, Christina E, Robins, James M, Bergstrom, Carl T, Lipsitch, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17214503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135
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spelling pubmed-13709242006-06-19 Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them Mills, Christina E Robins, James M Bergstrom, Carl T Lipsitch, Marc PLoS Med Policy Forum Containing an emerging influenza H5N1 pandemic in its earliest stages may be feasible, but containing multiple introductions of a pandemic-capable strain would be more difficult. Mills and colleagues argue that multiple introductions are likely, especially if risk of a pandemic is high. Public Library of Science 2006-06 2006-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC1370924/ /pubmed/17214503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135 Text en Copyright: © 2006 Mills et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Bergstrom, Carl T
Lipsitch, Marc
Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title_full Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title_fullStr Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title_full_unstemmed Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title_short Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
title_sort pandemic influenza: risk of multiple introductions and the need to prepare for them
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17214503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135
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