Influenza is now a preventable disease

The world is waiting with apprehension for the predicted pandemic of H5N1 (avian) influenza as an increasing number of countries in Asia, Europe and Africa report cases of influenza in migrating birds. All is not ‘despondency’, however. Targeted and controlled administration of antiviral drugs, alon...

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Autores principales: Oxford, J.S., Lambkin, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16564681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2006.02.007
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description The world is waiting with apprehension for the predicted pandemic of H5N1 (avian) influenza as an increasing number of countries in Asia, Europe and Africa report cases of influenza in migrating birds. All is not ‘despondency’, however. Targeted and controlled administration of antiviral drugs, alone or in combination, to contacts and cases, together with well tried public health measures, should slow down the spread of the infection and allow time for vaccines to be developed, thus preventing a worldwide pandemic of the type that occurred in 1918.
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spelling pubmed-71348502020-04-08 Influenza is now a preventable disease Oxford, J.S. Lambkin, R. Int J Antimicrob Agents Article The world is waiting with apprehension for the predicted pandemic of H5N1 (avian) influenza as an increasing number of countries in Asia, Europe and Africa report cases of influenza in migrating birds. All is not ‘despondency’, however. Targeted and controlled administration of antiviral drugs, alone or in combination, to contacts and cases, together with well tried public health measures, should slow down the spread of the infection and allow time for vaccines to be developed, thus preventing a worldwide pandemic of the type that occurred in 1918. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2006-04 2006-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7134850/ /pubmed/16564681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2006.02.007 Text en Copyright © 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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