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March 21, 2006

CME Releases Pandemic Survival Guide

In an effort to reduce the costs of an avian flu pandemic, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters unveiled a planning guide of Canadian business that will help mitigate the estimated $60-billion economic impact from a pandemic outbreak. Their freely available planning guide includes such topics as: Estimated Economic Impact of a Pandemic, Maintaining Essential Business Operations, Business Planning for Absences, Supply Chain Disruption and Border Closures, Staff Travel and Expatriates Evacuation Plan, Restrict Workplace Entry of People with Influenza Symptoms, Workplace Cleaning, Increase Social Distancing, Personal, Policies for Exposed Employees.

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January 11, 2006

Avian Influenza And The Pandemic Threat In Africa: Risk Assessment For Africa

Africa's poverty and lack of public health infrastructure make it a prime target for avian influenza. The continent has a poultry production similar very similar to Asia's but it lacks the protection of a sufficiently-funded public health system. So although the human/bird density is lower than Asia's, the potential danger from avian influenza reaching Africa is much higher. Local governments are already struggling to cope with well known and studied threats such as AIDS and malaria. Close monitoring of domestic birds will prove to be impractical due to the large areas that would need to be covered, and poverty-stricken farmers will resist the culling of their small flocks.

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December 27, 2005

CDC Fact Sheet on Avian Influenza

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has produced a fact sheet on avian influenza. It provides general information about avian influenza (bird flu) and information about one type of bird flu, called avian influenza A (H5N1), that has caused infections in birds in Asia and Europe and in humans in Asia. For your convenience, we have a copy of it here.

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