Is China prepared for microbial threats?

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.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2005-05-25

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/435421APMID 15917780PMCID 7095110
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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