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Swine flu outbreak an 'international emergency': WHO
Canwest News Service and Reuters April 25, 2009
WHO said it was too soon to announce travel advisories or to advise drugmakers to switch to producing a new vaccine - to be derived from the new virus - from their traditional production of seasonal influenza vaccines.
"We do not yet have a complete picture of the epidemiology or the risk, including possible spread beyond the currently affected areas," Chan said.
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1961, National Association for Mental Health (Great Britain), Emerging patterns for the mental health services & the public, page 18:In the adolescent groups we have now to think perhaps more about the epidemiology of morals rather than of typhoid fever.
1998, Sushil Jajodia with William List and Graeme W. McGregor, Integrity and internal control in information systems, page 136:This paper builds on models of the epidemiology of computer viruses, especially the work from the IBM research lab from the early 1990s
2000, “Books”, in Business week, page 19:In his new book, The Tipping Point, Gladwell attempts to devise an epidemiology of social behavior
2009, Susheel Chhabra with Muneesh Kumar, Integrating E-Business Models for Government Solutions, page 123:... culture can be studied as the epidemiology of representations or symbols.