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Article: Threat of an influenza pandemic: family physicians in the front line.(Correspondence)(Report)
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- BMC Family Practice
- Article date:
- February 3, 2009
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Authors: Wim Opstelten (corresponding author) [1,2]; Jim E van Steenbergen [3]; Gerrit A van Essen [2]; Marianne AB van der Sande [3]
Background
The chance of an influenza pandemic is real. A pandemic might run a relatively mild course (1956, 1967) or could have disastrous consequences with public health being stretched to its limits and beyond (1918) [1]. Therefore, many countries have drawn up varying strategies to guide policy in the event of an impending or manifest pandemic [2]. Physicians must be informed about preventive and therapeutic strategies in the event of an (impending) influenza pandemic - strategies that are totally different from ...
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