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Article: The pandemic playbook: a survival guide for all departments of your company.(RISK MANAGEMENT)
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- Risk & Insurance
- Article date:
- April 15, 2007
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All businesses must react to unexpected events. Some situations can be tempered by swift, decisive action, while the effects of others can be far-reaching and long-lasting. Since 2005, fear of a flu pandemic has been escalating around the world. In the United States, this has highlighted vulnerabilities in emergency response capabilities, the deficiencies of a chronically underfunded public health system, and, for businesses, gaps in disaster recovery and business-continuity planning.
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