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Hospitals and the Novel H1N1 Outbreak: The Mouse That Roared?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Dan Hanfling  and
John L. Hick
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 3 , Issue S2 , December 2009 , pp. S100 - S106
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2009

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