Ready for Life

This article posted by CNN in the money section highlights some of the challenges and responsibilities service oriented companies will face. The best scenario of course, is to prepare you family as much as possible so that you are more self-reliant. Instead of a steady diet of soup and bread, put back a little extra for your family each shopping trip so that your pantry is diverse and nutrient rich.

CNN article on Birdflu and companies bracing for that possibility

Additionally, the CDC issued guidelines for ranking the severity of pandemic outbreaks in the US. This is similar to the scales used to categorize hurricanes with a Category I outbreak just around 90.000 cases in the US. This is slightly worse than the regular flu season of averaged 36,000. A Category 5 outbreak approaches numbers and severity similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak which still looks weak in comparison to a possibly H5N1 outbreak.