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MEDICC Review 2010; 12 (1)

Faceoff: Cuba vs H1N1 Influenza

Reed G

Language: English
References: 23
Page: 6-12
PDF size: 770.96 Kb.


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Last April, the same week that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency due to influenza A(H1N1), Cuban government and public health authorities met to chart a course for prevention and management of the flu that by year’s end had become pandemic, spreading to some 200 countries.


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