The deadly plague returns to America: the Pandemic Scenario: a mutated flu virus strain cripples the United States in a global pandemic. Employers struggle to function as a third of their personnel succumb to this virulent new bug.(Top 10 risks: pandemic)

Risk & Insurance | April 15, 2004| | Copyright

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Over several years, clusters of cases of a deadly new strain of flu, designated A(H5N1), have been reported in Vietnam, Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia. The flu strain is caught from chickens. It's particularly deadly--more than a third of its victims die--and most of the initial victims are children. There are no recorded cases of this strain of the flu being passed from one person to another--the only transmission path is from inhaling particles from birds, mainly chickens. Public health measures include the slaughter of ...

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