Population-level susceptibility, severity and spread of pandemic influenza: design of, and initial results from, a pre-pandemic and hibernating pandemic phase study using cross-sectional data from the Health Survey for England (HSE)

• Main Authors: Ellen B Fragaszy (Author), Mark Quinlivan (Author), Judith Breuer (Author), Rachel Craig (Author), Stephanie Hutchings (Author), Michael Kidd (Author), Jennifer Mindell (Author), Andrew C Hayward (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: NIHR Journals Library, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Assessing severity and spread of a novel influenza strain at the start of a pandemic is critical for informing a targeted and proportional response. It requires community-level studies to estimate the burden of infection and disease. Rapidly initiating such studies in a pandemic is diffi...