Rationing vaccine during an avian influenza pandemic: why it won't be easy.
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The specter of an avian influenza pandemic poses enormous technical and logistical challenges. For example, how can such a looming catastrophe be avoided? If we cannot prevent it, how can we best mobilize our medical and social resources to effectively blunt its impact? How can we quickly mobilize production of sufficient quantities of effective vaccines and antiviral agents to either prevent infection or mitigate the burden of illness in the infected? While we hope and trust that our scientists and public health officials will do their best to prevent a pandemic, it would be foolhardy to assume they will succeed against
Source: PubMed Central
Author: John D Arras
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1510265840