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Eighty years of an influenza pandemic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2009

E. Kajantie
E. Kajantie*
Affiliation:
Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
*
Address for correspondence: E. Kajantie, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, PL 30, 00271 Helsinki, Finland. (Email eero.kajantie@helsinki.fi)
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Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 4 - 5
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2009

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