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Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010

Historical Review

Mortality Risk Factors for Pandemic Influenza on New Zealand Troop Ship, 1918

Jennifer A. SummersComments to Author , Nick Wilson, Michael G. Baker, and G. Dennis Shanks
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand (J.A. Summers, N. Wilson, M.G. Baker); Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia (G.D. Shanks)

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Figure 1

His Majesty’s New Zealand Transport Tahiti in Wellington Harbor (c. 1914–1919). Photograph was taken by an unidentified photographer (23).

Figure 1. His Majesty’s New Zealand Transport Tahiti in Wellington Harbor (c. 1914–1919). Photograph was taken by an unidentified photographer (23).

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