Selected References

Preventive Health Care, 2004 Update: Prevention of Influenza in the General Population

Prepared  by J.M. Langley, MD, MSc, FRCPC, M.E. Faughnan, MD, FRCPC, with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

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