TY - JOUR AU - Taylor, Melanie R. AU - Agho, Kingsley E. AU - Stevens, Garry J. AU - Raphael, Beverley PY - 2008 DA - 2008/10/03 TI - Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: Data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza JO - BMC Public Health SP - 347 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - In 2007 Australia experienced its first outbreak of highly infectious equine influenza. Government disease control measures were put in place to control, contain, and eradicate the disease; these measures included movement restrictions and quarantining of properties. This study was conducted to assess the psycho-social impacts of this disease, and this paper reports the prevalence of, and factors influencing, psychological distress during this outbreak. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-347 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-8-347 ID - Taylor2008 ER -