Combating an invisible enemy: the American military response to global pandemics
Abstract The present moment is not the first time that America has found itself at war with a pathogen during a time of international conflict. Between crowded barracks at home and trenches abroad, wartime conditions helped enable the spread of influenza in the fall of 1918 during World War I such t...
Main Authors: | Lauren K. Dutton, Peter C. Rhee, Alexander Y. Shin, Richard J. Ehrlichman, Richard J. Shemin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-01-01
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Series: | Military Medical Research |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-021-00299-3 |
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