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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.
Entrepreneur August 2006 Chris Penttila	The Hot Zone Prepare your business for the outbreak of bird flu or any other possible pandemic before you're really in trouble.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 John Carey	Prevent A Pandemic, Make A Profit Where there's disaster, there's opportunity for business.
Managed Care July 2006 Ed Silverman	Managed Care Prepares For the Worst To cope with the possibility of an avian flu pandemic, health plans are devising ways to function even when their providers are being overrun and the insurers themselves face a vastly depleted workforce.
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.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself.
American Journal of Nursing July 2007 Victoria J. Davey	Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness.
Investment Advisor September 2006 Dave Kieffer	IA Soapbox: Are You in Pandemic Denial? Under a severe flu scenario, the global just-in-time economy will buckle. Most financial advisors will want their clients to sit this out. But you might have only a day, more likely hours, to attend to your clients' interests.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology April 28, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	No Swine Flu Emergency Yet, but Banks Should Keep Eyes Open Although it's not yet time to push the panic button, it is still important for banks to monitor something like the spread of swine flu closely and to take stock of their disaster recovery plans.
American Family Physician September 1, 2006 Gregory Juckett	Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source.
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.
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.
InternetNews December 22, 2005 David Needle	Most Companies Ill Prepared for Pandemic A new Basex report says that most large companies don't have the right policies to handle extended absenteeism and other pandemic related issues.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Karen DeMasters	What If ... ? Financial advisors debate talking with clients about what to do if a viral pandemic strikes U.S.
Bank Systems & Technology June 13, 2007 Nancy Feig	Avian Flu: Are Banks' IT Systems Ready? The U.S. financial services industry will test its ability to respond to an avian flu pandemic with an exercise to begin in late September that will be sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Searcher June 2006 Eva C. Perkins	Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu.
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.
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004	Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic.
Scientific American November 2005	Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit.
American History December 2006	Letter : Coming Home to Roost Remembering 1918 and recognizing the catastrophe that could unfold in an age when a virus can cross the globe in a matter of hours has spurred unprecedented international cooperation and planning.
Investment Advisor May 2006 Ryan G. Murphy	Catching up with... An interview with Milton Ezrati, senior economic and marketing strategist with Lord Abbet on the possible avian flu pandemic's role in the financial world.
AskMen.com	Flu Overhyped? Some Say So The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it.
AskMen.com	Swine Flu: The Game Dutch researchers have created a free, online-only game that challenges players to control a new pandemic -- swine flu.
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 John Carey	New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work?
Chemistry World February 2006	Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted.
Popular Mechanics July 31, 2007 John Galvin	Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Brian Lawler	Happy (Sniffle) Holidays (Cough) It's flu season again, and the market for influenza vaccines is hot. Pharma investors, take note.
Bank Technology News December 2007	Resiliency: Broadband Needs to Get Much Broader Much of banks' contingency plans rely on their ability to get work completed remotely. While a simultaneous drop in the communications and electric workforces may affect banks, the real concern is the availability of bandwidth.
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Nanotech Battles Bird Flu Several nanotech and IT firms say their products could help detect the virus and slow its spread.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Katherine Burger	Calling in Sick There may be a kind of disaster looming that even the most recovery-savvy businesses have not anticipated -- a major flu outbreak. The implications regarding business continuity plans are as serious as a looming hurricane.
Managed Care December 2005 Jack McCain	Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse.
Adventure February 2006 Ken Kamler	Ask Dr. Extreme Should avian bird flu alter travel plans to Laos?
IndustryWeek October 1, 2006 Doug Bartholomew	Plan for Worst-Case Scenarios Should the avian flu pandemic occur, the U.S. government has created basic guidelines to help companies continue operations.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Bird Flu Planning Isn't for the Birds Buffalo Wild Wings discusses its strategy for dealing with the threat of avian flu. It's impossible to completely eliminate some risks, but it's quite possible for an astute firm to effectively manage any adversity that may come down its path. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Capitalist Pig's View of Swine Flu So you want to make money from the swine flu? Here's how to do so.
CFO December 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Flu Diligence New software programs help companies gauge the potential business impact of a pandemic. FluWorkLoss... Infectious Disease Modeling... etc.
Managed Care February 2005 Jack McCain	Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance?
Smithsonian January 2006 Michael Rosenwald	The Flu Hunter For years, virologist Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Here is a short list of what we do and don't know of swine flu.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Rich Duprey	Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about.
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Carol Matlack	Preventing The Pandemic France's Sanofi Pasteur is already signing contracts for an avian flu vaccine.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Disaster Planning: Plans Focus on Employees Instead of Infrastructure Pandemic flu prompts need for virtual workplace.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kerry Capell	High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally.
Health June 19, 2009 Ginny Graves	How to Combat the Latest Supergerms While some germs may be outpacing our ability to kill them, we're not completely defenseless. In fact, there are plenty of things we can do to slow their spread.
Scientific American May 2005 Christine Soares	Cooping Up Avian Flu Buying time to arm for a pandemic is possible--maybe.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005	China's Budding Maturity China last week mounted a surprisingly aggressive mobilization in hopes of averting an avian flu pandemic that has the potential to hobble Asia's economy and slam global growth.
AskMen.com	Swine Flu: Pandemic On The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak appears to have reached pandemic proportions.