Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 12 , Pages 814-816 , December 2009

When Nature turns cook: An epidemiological feast: Report of the John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture 2009, delivered by Dr David Heymann

Received 10 September 2009 ,Revised 9 October 2009 ,Accepted 12 October 2009.

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