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Her work together with husband Geoffrey Rice on the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan is appraised as the most thorough in the subject to date.
- ↑ Edwina Palmer first in New Zealand to receive Inoue Yasushi Award. InfoNews, 12 July 2012.
- ↑ "The Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette upon Dr Edwina Palmer" (PDF) (Press release). Wellington, New Zealand: Embassy of Japan in New Zealand. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
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