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The Lancet. Timely estimates of influenza A H7N9 infection severity
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The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 24 June 2013
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61447-6
Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Timely estimates of influenza A H7N9 infection severity
Original Text
C?cile Viboud a, Lone Simonsen a b
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WHO guidance, released in May, 2013, established that estimates of disease severity are key for risk assessment of novel influenza viruses. Unfortunately, epidemiological assessment of severity is difficult in the context of an emerging disease, when estimates are most needed to guide pandemic response. The case fatality risk is an estimate of the proportion of patients with a specific disease who have died; however, both the numerator and denominator of this estimator are elusive. Case detect ...
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a Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; b Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
-doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61447-6
Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Timely estimates of influenza A H7N9 infection severity
Original Text
C?cile Viboud a, Lone Simonsen a b
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WHO guidance, released in May, 2013, established that estimates of disease severity are key for risk assessment of novel influenza viruses. Unfortunately, epidemiological assessment of severity is difficult in the context of an emerging disease, when estimates are most needed to guide pandemic response. The case fatality risk is an estimate of the proportion of patients with a specific disease who have died; however, both the numerator and denominator of this estimator are elusive. Case detect ...
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a Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; b Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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