The World Today

Health Security and Animal Disease: Hooves and Humans

Heike Baumuller and David L Heymann, March 2010

The World Today, Volume 66, Number 3

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There is relief that human cases of Swine Flu have so far turned out to be less lethal than expected for many people. Understanding of the need to be prepared is beginning to replace annoyance over expensive unused vaccine stockpiles. But pandemic alerts might be avoided altogether with a new approach aiming to deal with diseases before they spread from animals.

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