Cayman Net News: "One of the keynote speakers at Cayman Business Outlook 2008, held on Thursday 17 January at the Ritz-Carlton, has again raised the controversial subject of a possible worldwide bird flu ‘pandemic’.
Defined as an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide, the World Health Organisation (WHO) sets down three pre-requisites for a pandemic: ‘The emergence of a disease new to the population, that the agent infects humans, causing serious illness and that the agent spreads easily and sustainably among humans.’"
Defined as an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide, the World Health Organisation (WHO) sets down three pre-requisites for a pandemic: ‘The emergence of a disease new to the population, that the agent infects humans, causing serious illness and that the agent spreads easily and sustainably among humans.’"
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