There's been enough talk of an influenza pandemic to make preparation a hot topic with risk managers--even a featured session at this week's Public Risk Management Association annual conference in Las Vegas. In fact, a potential widespread influenza pandemic is a public risk manager's worst nightmare. The implications are enormous, even devastating--yet it's also possible that a pandemic isn't in the cards at all (we hope). And so it's up to risk managers not only to prepare for the unthinkable but to do it without causing too much alarm.
It's also necessary to carry out these preparations now, in the early stages, while thinking is clear and rational.
Whether or not the H5N1 virus, or bird flu, will reach pandemic proportions is open to debate. Some experts warn of dire consequences should the virus continue to jump from birds to humans, or to other species such as pigs, dogs or horses.
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