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Atmospheric Environment

Volume 38, Issue 3, January 2004, Pages 503-505
Atmospheric Environment

New Directions: Airborne Transmission of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge Alex Donaldson (formerly Head of Pirbright Laboratory), Torben Mikkelsen (Risø National Laboratory, Denmark) and Jens Sørensen (Danish Meteorological Institute) and Derrick Ryall (Met Office, UK) for their helpful comments on the paper.

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