NU Online News Service, May 19, 3:37 p.m. EDT

Fifty-five percent of executives at global companies said they have plan in place to manage pandemic risk and have activated it in response to the outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus variation.

A survey released today, taken during the week of May 4 by New York-based The Conference Board, a not-for-profit think tank, found that of 121 members of 44 councils--small, cross-industry networking peer groups of executives--the majority (66 percent) of companies are responding at a global, enterprise level, rather than locally.

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