U.S. companies prepare for bird flu pandemic
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Exxon plans to keep some refinery workers living in the plants to keep them going. A small Southern grocery chain is thinking about drive-through pickup of soup and bread.
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Chiron Corp. (CHIR.O) has won a contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.    Specialists say it's only a matter of time before the next one strikes, and concern is rising that the recurring bird flu in Asia could be the trigger since it is mutating in a way that lets it spread easily among people...
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Plans to have large numbers of employees work remotely in the event of an influenza pandemic could fall apart if Internet traffic reaches bandwidth-choking levels, business continuity planners say.
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Health officials warned Monday that the world was close to its next pandemic - a powerful and highly contagious mix of avian influenza and flu virus that would likely be centered in Asia.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become pandemic.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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The U.S. government is co-sponsoring a three-week planning exercise that will simulate the impact of a pandemic on financial services firms, including their ability to support telecommuters.
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THE HAGUE -- The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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The World Health Organization says that Asia faces a Bird Flu (avian flu) pandemic if things do not change soon. The WHO said that detection and prevention methods need a complete overhaul.
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Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.
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WASHINGTON - The United States may have to close schools, restrict travel and ration scarce medications if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak, according to federal plans for the next pandemic, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.    It will take months to brew a vaccine that works against the kind of super-flu that causes a pandemic, although government preparations include research to speed that production...
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Stocks in the largest U.S. chicken companies were lower on Monday after the deadly bird flu hit a turkey farm in England, but U.S. experts said there was no danger to the $38.5 billion U.S. chicken industry.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early as this month, a World Health Organization (news - web sites) official said on Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill
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Much more vaccine needs to be produced to cope with a possible pandemic of bird flu, experts warn.
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Governments around the world need to do more to prepare for the dramatic economic impact of the next flu pandemic, the United Nations influenza coordinator said on Thursday.
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Health officials warned Monday that the world was close to its next pandemic -- a powerful and highly contagious mix of avian influenza and flu virus that would likely be centered in Asia.