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. 2009 Aug 26:1:RRN1013.
doi: 10.1371/currents.RRN1013.

Mortality and morbidity burden associated with A/H1N1pdm influenza virus: Who is likely to be infected, experience clinical symptoms, or die from the H1N1pdm 2009 pandemic virus ?

Mark Miller  1 , Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Donald R Olson, Colin Russell
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Mortality and morbidity burden associated with A/H1N1pdm influenza virus: Who is likely to be infected, experience clinical symptoms, or die from the H1N1pdm 2009 pandemic virus ?

Mark Miller et al. PLoS Curr. .

Abstract

Here we use lessons from past influenza pandemics and recent information about the H1N1pdm pandemic to discuss variations in H1N1pdm disease burden with age, underlying risk factors, and geography.

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