Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 253-256, July 2009

Influenza and meningococcal disease: Lessons for travellers and government from 2 epidemic diseases

  • Robert Booy

      Affiliations

    • The Children's Hospital at Westmead and The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Disease, The Children's Hospital at Westmead and The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia. Tel.: +61 (0)298451415; fax: +61 (0)298451418.
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  • Haitham El Bashir

      Affiliations

    • General and Adolescent Paediatric Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
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  • Harunor Rashid

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
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  • Delane Shingadia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London, UK
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  • Elizabeth Haworth

      Affiliations

    • Health Protection Agency South East, UK

Received 24 August 2008; accepted 8 September 2008. published online 14 November 2008.

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PII: S1477-8939(08)00123-3

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.09.001

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 253-256, July 2009