Bird Flu Pandemic Planning--Are Your Assets Covered?

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity

Just because it hasn’t happened yet, don’t think that the avian influenza pandemic isn’t going to happen. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” a DHS representative said during a presentation to a financial services industry group. And when the avian flu does make the jump to human to human transmission, the mortality rate of 54% seen between 1997 and 2005’s more than 100 human victims will increase dramatically. Short of a nuclear exchange between nations, nothing has the potential to threaten as many lives and cause as much disruption to the global economy as the H5N1 avian influenza.

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