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Swine flu 'still a threat'
13/05/2009
Swine flu may still present a significant threat to business continuity, according to one website.
However, continuity forum, a business continuity news website, warned that disaster recovery planners should continue to pay close attention to statements from the World Health Organisation (WHO) concerning the outbreak as the danger from the disease may not have passed.
The website quoted research by Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, which suggested that the virus could be as virulent as the 1957 flu pandemic, although it is probably not as bad as the Spanish flu epidemic seen in 1918.
It added that Keiji Fukuda of WHO had said: "There is a good chance that the virus will re-emerge in the autumn and winter months in the northern hemisphere and that it could become more virulent."
So far, the disease - which cannot be transmitted by pigs or pork products, despite its name - has killed more than 100 people in Mexico.
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