The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 6, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(2):121; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl035
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Commentary: Europe's preparedness for an influenza pandemic
W. John PagetEuropean Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) Co-ordination Centre, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) Utrecht, The Netherlands
Correspondence: W. John Paget, European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) Co-ordination Centre, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, The Netherlands, e-mail: j.paget@nivel.nl
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The paper in this month's edition of the European Journal of Public Health on Europe's preparedness for an influenza pandemic1 is highly relevant in the light of the emergence of the influenza A(H5N1) virus in humans in Southeast Asia and, more recently, in Turkey and Iraq.2 The paper provides a nice overview of the different organisations in Europe that are active in the field of influenza
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