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How predictable are flu pandemics?
Author(s) -
Hill Edward,
Tildesley Michael,
House Thomas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01090.x
Subject(s) - pandemic , outbreak , history , covid-19 , bird flu , genealogy , geography , virology , environmental ethics , biology , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , virus , disease , pathology
There were at least four flu pandemics in the past century, but is it possible to predict how many there might be in the century to come? Edward Hill, Michael Tildesley and Thomas House analyse 300 years of outbreaks in search of clues