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ReviewEpidemiology and infection1995

Virology research and virulent human pandemics.

C A Mims

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Review in Epidemiology and infection, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

C A MimsDepartment of Microbiology, Guys Hospital Medical School, UMDS, London.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The possibility that a devastating human pandemic could arise, causing massive loss of human life, is discussed. Such a major threat to the human species is likely to be a virus, and would spread by the respiratory route. It need not necessarily cause massive loss of life, but if it caused serious illness or incapacity it would still have a major impact. A possible source is from an existing respiratory pathogen, but it would more probably arise from an infection that is maintained in an arthropod or vertebrate host, but which at present either does not infect humans, or if it does it fails to be effectively transmitted between them. More research should therefore focus on the pathogenetic factors and the viral determinants that promote respiratory transmission.

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Disease OutbreaksResearchVirologyGlobal HealthHumansRespiratory Tract InfectionsVirus Diseases

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PMID8557069
PMCPMC2271593

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