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BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Shari & Balfour |
SARS: The Sequel? Across Asia, governments and companies are getting ready. |
Fast Company August 2003 Alison Overholt |
Leading Through SARS First came the rumor: A killer virus was sweeping through Hong Kong. Panic soon followed. Marjorie Yang, CEO of textiles conglomerate the Esquel Group, faced her toughest test: to manage a global organization from ground zero of SARS. |
Bio-IT World May 9, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Coalition Forces and the Fog of War Coalition forces take on the microbe menace. No sooner had the SARS threat been identified than forces from the bio-IT coalition came together to repel the enemy. |
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions. |
AskMen.com Jen Woodward |
False Pandemic Scares While nobody can say for sure if or when another pandemic will strike, these historic false alarms might soothe your fears. |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2003 Alyce Lomax |
Glaxo to Tackle SARS The drug giant readies to confront what is either a high-profile threat, or so last year. |
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 |
The "Horrific" Economics of Avian Flu A new study looks at what a pandemic could do to the global economy, and it isn't pretty. The lesson: Prepare well -- now. |
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Catherine Arnst |
What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
U.S. Banker May 2003 Michael Dumiak |
The Brittle New Economy A mysterious Asian flu took hold and forecasts slid. But the catalyst could have been anything. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
Airplane Air As if the fear of terrorism, turbulence or mechanical failure were not enough, airplane passengers still have to contend with the fear of microbial invasion. |
Popular Mechanics February 25, 2010 Scott Pierce |
The Crazies' Franken-Virus Toxins: How Scared Should We Be? The movie never clearly specifies how the disease spreads, and wrings some dramatic tension from that ambiguity, so prospective viewers beware of spoilers below. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself. |
Popular Mechanics March 2006 Jeff Wise |
Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. |
Popular Mechanics January 8, 2010 Erin McCarthy |
How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak. |
Science News July 26, 2003 Janet Raloff |
Sweet Treatment for SARS In the future, people with the intense flu- and pneumonia-like symptoms of SARS could find relief in a therapy derived from licorice. |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Dan Dinello |
Virus horror! In a new era of movies like the Farrelly brothers' "Osmosis Jones," we die from bugs, not bombs... |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
Liquorice versus SARS An extract of liquorice root already used to treat HIV could become the first line of defence against a future outbreak of SARS, according to German researchers. |
Scientific American February 27, 2006 Charles Q. Choi |
Going to Bat Long known as vectors for rabies, bats may be the origin of some of the most deadly emerging viruses. Knowledge that bats can carry dangerous viruses could work to prevent epidemics. |
BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Clifford et al. |
Behind the Revolt The rise of people power has changed Hong Kong and China forever |
National Real Estate Investor April 24, 2003 Parke Chapman |
CoreNet convention cancelled due to SARS concerns After the World Health Organization (WHO) this week advised travelers to avoid Toronto over the SARS epidemic, CoreNet Global -- an Atlanta-based trade group of corporate real estate executives -- cancelled its five-day summit scheduled to take place there May 3. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 David E. Bloom |
Governing Global Health How better coordination can advance global health and improve value for money. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 John Carey |
Prevent A Pandemic, Make A Profit Where there's disaster, there's opportunity for business. |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
Crisis Management Building owners and managers have another reason to dust off their emergency preparedness plans -- the growing threat of avian flu. |
Wired January 2004 |
View Want full disclosure from corporate America? Start rating cybersecurity... Is Friendster changing our friendships?... Patents' Raging Bull... etc. |
CIO August 15, 2003 Lafe Low |
SARS Hits IT Spending While the World Health Organization declared on July 5 that the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, had been contained, the world economy will continue to feel the effects of the deadly disease for some time. |
Outside July 2003 Hal Espen |
Road Worriers War, terror, and SARS are keeping millions of travelers at home. Sounds like it's time to plan an adventure. |
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Frederik Balfour |
A Boom Built By Beijing Hong Kong is coming back, thanks mainly to China's largesse |
CFO July 1, 2003 |
Bush's Big Gamble The President's $330 billion tax cut may win votes at election time, but it offers little help for businesses. Plus: E-mail as portrait painter, corporate exercises in utility, and the net tax debate. |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Balfour & Einhorn |
Hong Kong: It's Back! In Hong Kong, real estate is booming, shoppers are spending, and Disneyland is on the way. But is this just another bubble? |
Finance & Development March 2008 |
Letters to the Editor SARS... Governing global health... Lax regulation in subprime crisis... Oil trade and the WTO... |
American Family Physician May 15, 2003 Matthew Neff |
Newsletter FDA, CDC Respond to Increasing Threat of SARS... HHS Releases HIPAA-Related Documents on Patient Privacy Standards... New Research Journal, Annals of Family Medicine, to Debut This Month... HHS Announces $15 Million Health Initiative Focused on Prevention |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Michael Hickins |
Throwing The Book at Pandemics In preparation for the next time Mother Nature attacks, most companies have established business continuity plans that rely to a great extent on the nation's Internet backbone to provide the infrastructure for telecommuting. |
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004 Simon Cartledge |
Shopping Makes A Comeback In Hong Kong As the mainland allows freer travel, tourists are springing for tax-free loot. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Shanghai and Hong Kong: China's Twin Engines of Growth China's economy will be like a giant 747 with Shanghai and Hong Kong acting as its two main engines, if Hong Kong can reinvent itself to balance Shanghai's growing prosperity, according to Ming K. Chan, an authority on Hong Kong and Asian development. |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 |
Don't Get Bugged This Summer An infectious-disease pro tells how to protect yourself from harmful bites. |