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The next influenza pandemic: lessons from Hong Kong.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Jan 2003
Shortridge K F, Peiris J S M, Guan Y
Abstract excerpt
Pandemic influenza is a zoonosis. Studies on influenza ecology conducted in Hong Kong since the 1970s in which Hong Kong essentially functioned as an influenza sentinel post indicated that it might be possible, for the first time, to have influenza preparedness at the baseline avian level. This appreciation of influenza ecology facilitated recognition of the H5N1 'bird flu' incident in Hong Kong in 1997 in what...
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