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Category Archives: Public health

Filter could provide cheap way to contain viral disease outbreaks

By Fangfei Shen
Posted: November 14, 2011
Category: Public health | Tagged Chemical Engineering Journal, epidemiology, France, H1N1, H5N1, H5N2, Harvard, health, Mark Lipsitch, medicine, PEI, SARS, Sergey Grinshpun, Toronto, Trong Nguyen, University of Cincinnati, University of Lyon, University of Roeun, viral filter, virus | Leave a comment
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