H5N1

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Avian flu is slowly but surely getting headlines. Last weeks catastrophe could be a wake-up call.

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BusinessWeek.com offers an Online Extra: The "Horrific" Economics of Avian Flu. It's an interview with the authors of An Investor's Guide to Avian Flu,

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Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has published a report that concludes "Healthcare workers in New York may be unable or unwilling to report to work during cerain catastrophes."...In a way, this isn't news. In 1918-19, a lot of doctors and nurses just disappeared. They were either scared for themselves, or desperately stressed by what they witnessed. A lot of New Orleans cops walked away from their jobs last week, and we can expect the same kind of response from people in the front lines of the pandemic.

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