Bird Flu Monitor > IMF says bird flu pandemic would have serious impact on global ”¦ - Forbes
[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] LONDON (AFX) - The IMF said a bird flu pandemic is unlikely, but it would have a big impact on the global economy if it did happen.
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[Bird-flu-blog.blogspot.com] Bird-Flu-Blog: 03/01/2006 - 03/31/2006: While we are glad to see that the International Monetary Fund has bird flu on its radar, we disagree with its conclusion that in a bird flu pandemic "GDP might drop very sharply in one quarter and then rebound the next," he said. "The sharp decline would be due to the fact that rates of absenteeism and illness between them would reduce the labor force and labor time substantially." To the contrary, experts predict that bird flu will come in "waves" and last approximately 18 months.
[Search.news.yahoo.com] Yahoo! News Search Results for SARS: ... struck Asia last year and could unleash a pandemic that could ... help prevent the spread of diseases including flu and tuberculosis ... IMF - Dec 01 9 ...
[Blog-podcast.com] Avian Flu Updates at blog-podcast.com » Original articles: Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today’s environment of world-wide connectivity. The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science online the week of April 3-7, and in the print issue of April 11.
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