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Bird Flu Pandemic Planning--Are Your Assets Covered?

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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.The build up of planning, and writing a pandemic response plan for financial institutions needs to happen. A year ago, headlines were screaming about a looming disaster: the rapid spread of bird flu across two-thirds of the globe. That worldwide pandemic hasn't yet materialized, and bird flu has been out of the headlines for a while.

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