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Influenza Pandemic: A Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Geert Seynaeve
Geert Seynaeve*
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Deputy Editor, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
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geert.seynaeve@attentia.be
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2009, pp. 473 - 477
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