Business Continuity: The risk of a pandemic in the UK

• Author:
• Peter Power

Many organisations have recently been focusing on the issues associated with the possibility of a serious outbreak of influenza if the strain of the influenza virus currently infecting birds in various areas of the globe (H5N1 or the so-called “avian flu”) eventually mutates into a strain that is easily communicable from human to human (which current “avian flu” strains are not).

While public health experts cannot now predict whether a serious outbreak of influenza i... (2929 more words)

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