Killing the canary: the international epidemiology of the homicide of media workers.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on August 01, 2008

Authors

L Riddick1, G Thomson, N Wilson, G Purdie

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand.

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