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Is China prepared for microbial threats?

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  • David Ho

    (the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University)

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There is no bigger acute microbial threat to China, and to the rest of the world, than an influenza pandemic, and no better time to prepare for this eventuality than now. David Ho asks what more China could be doing.

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  • David Ho, 2005. "Is China prepared for microbial threats?," Nature, Nature, vol. 435(7041), pages 421-422, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:435:y:2005:i:7041:d:10.1038_435421a
    DOI: 10.1038/435421a
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    1. Marcello Basili & Mauriziop Franzini, 2005. "The Avian Flu Disease: A Case of Precautionary Failure," Department of Economics University of Siena 454, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
    2. Marcello Basili & Maurizio Franzini, 2006. "Understanding the Risk of an Avian Flu Pandemic: Rational Waiting or Precautionary Failure?," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 26(3), pages 617-630, June.
    3. Michael Xiaoliang Tong & Alana Hansen & Scott Hanson-Easey & Scott Cameron & Jianjun Xiang & Qiyong Liu & Yehuan Sun & Philip Weinstein & Gil-Soo Han & Craig Williams & Peng Bi, 2015. "Infectious Diseases, Urbanization and Climate Change: Challenges in Future China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-12, September.

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