Population-level susceptibility, severity and spread of pandemic influenza: design of, and initial results from, a pre-pandemic and hibernating pandemic phase study using cross-sectional data from the Health Survey for England (HSE)

Population-level susceptibility, severity and spread of pandemic influenza: design of, and initial results from, a pre-pandemic and hibernating pandemic phase study using cross-sectional data from the Health Survey for England (HSE)

Background: Assessing severity and spread of a novel influenza strain at the start of a pandemic is critical for informing a targeted and proportional response. It requires community-level studies to estimate the burden of infection and disease. Rapidly initiating such studies in a pandemic is diffi...

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Main Authors: Ellen B Fragaszy, Mark Quinlivan, Judith Breuer, Rachel Craig, Stephanie Hutchings, Michael Kidd, Jennifer Mindell, Andrew C Hayward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2015-06-01
Series:Public Health Research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/phr03060

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https://doi.org/10.3310/phr03060

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