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Comment
. 2009 Feb;15(2):346-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1502.081208.

Time from illness onset to death, 1918 influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia

Keith P Klugman, Christina Mills Astley, Marc Lipsitch
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Time from illness onset to death, 1918 influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia

Keith P Klugman et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Feb.
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Distribution of days of illness before death from influenza-related pneumonia, 1918, and from untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, 1920s and 1930s.
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