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 · 2006

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Abstract

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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