Article: Double trouble; Flexibility seen as way to fight swine flu.(NEWS)

Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker

When Donna M. Tomasetti heard stories last spring about the H1N1 influenza, she headed for a Walmart store to buy hand sanitizer and found the shelves stripped bare by other shoppers.

The experience stuck with the director of human resources at Advanced Cable Ties Inc. of Gardner, who has since made sure her employer is stocked up with hospital-grade cleaners, medical gloves, face masks and, yes, lots of hand sanitizer.

"I said, `Oh, my God, if people panic and they do want hand sanitizer, I'm going to make sure I've got it for my people,'" Mrs. Tomasetti said.

As public health authorities caution of a ...

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