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An outbreak of influenza among physicians during the first wave of Mexico City’s 2009 H1N1 epidemic

To the editor: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are of major concern during influenza epidemics. The H1N1 epidemic initially posed an enormous burden on hospital day work. In the current report we present an outbreak of Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 among physicians, the majority of them fellows, during Mexico City’s first wave between April and May, 2009.

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