How Concerned Should We Be About the Recent Avian Influenza Outbreaks?

Affiliations

¹ Office of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
² Global Health Strategists and Implementers, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³ Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Editorial

Salah T Al Awaidy et al. Oman Med J. 2024.

. 2024 Mar 31;39(2):e604.

doi: 10.5001/omj.2024.86. eCollection 2024 Mar.

¹ Office of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
² Global Health Strategists and Implementers, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³ Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

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