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Avian flu: the effect of a pandemic on health and life insurers

Based on the patterns of previous pandemics, predictive modelling by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shown alarming potential effects should an anticipated outbreak of avian flu arise. Virginia Burke of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge reports on the consequences for health and life insurers

Worldwide epidemics (termed 'pandemics') of the respiratory disease known as influenza or 'flu' occur on a regular basis, generally two to three times per century. The last three flu pandemics

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