Beyond Ebola: lessons to mitigate future pandemics.

Lancet Glob Health

The Simon A Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Published: July 2015

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