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Disease burdens and the risk of new pandemics

Topics: Environmental scenarios ,

Last modified: Nov 24, 2011

The risk of exposure to new, emerging and re-emerging diseases, to accidents and new pandemics, grows with increasing mobility of people and goods, climate change and poverty. Vulnerable Europeans could be severely affected.

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