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Ergonomics and infection outbreaks

1 November 2009 by Patrick Waterson

For most of us in the UK the last few months have been dominated by Government and media reports about the Swine Flu pandemic. Many people will have thought over the consequences of a mass outbreak, particularly those of us with young children or elderly relatives. Not that long ago the subject of hospital-based infections [...]

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