Options for the Control of Influenza IV Proceedings of the World Congress on Options for the Control of Influenza IV, Held in Crete, Greece, 23rd-28th September 2000

This book presents the proceedings of the fourth "International Conference on Options for the Control of Influenza" that was organised by the European Scientific Working group on Influenza (ESWI. It provides a state of the art overview of virtually all aspects of influenza: Epidemiology: the scope of the influenza problem, including public health, economic- and epidemiological aspects, as well as surveillance and diagnostic methods; Research: fundamental and applied research topics related to the virus structure, its replication and its control by the host immune system are addressed.; and Control strategies:recent developments in vaccine and antiviral research and their impact on the control of the disease and its spreading.