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Editorial Comments–Anticipated Behaviors of Emergency Prehospital Medical Care Providers during an Influenza Pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Samuel J. Stratton
Samuel J. Stratton*
Affiliation:
Center for Public Health and Disasters, University of California, Los Angeles, Orange County California Health Care Agency, Health Disaster Management/Emergency Medical Services, California, USA
*
sstratton@ucla.edu
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Editorial Comments
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 26 - 27
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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