Avian flu: the corporate healthcare response

Sarah Silcox reports on a small survey of 37 organisations indicating how occupational health professionals have been involved in developing contingency plans for a flu pandemic.

The world is currently closer to an influenza pandemic than it has been at any time since 1968,according to the World Health Organization (WHO), even though few, if any, cases of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus have been reported.