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Indigenous people in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are three to six times more likely to be hospitalized for influenza than non-Indigenous people, according to meta-analysis

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Indigenous people in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are three to six times more likely to be hospitalized for influenza than non-Indigenous people, according to meta-analysis.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001294

Article Title: Influenza-associated hospitalisation and mortality rates among global Indigenous populations; a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author Countries: Australia

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

 

 


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