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| Panasonic calls people home over flu fear |
| 2009-02-10 |
| Panasonic says families of overseas workers in Africa and other regions are being ordered home to Japan in anticipation of a severe flu outbreak. Workers will remain in their posts while their families return home by September from Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia, South America and Asia, excluding Singapore, said Panasonic spokesman Akira Kadota. Panasonic fears an outbreak of influenza, including H5N1 bird flu, Kadota said, noting the H5N1 virus has been confirmed in more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe since 2003. The virus has killed more than 250 people since 2003 with the peak outbreak occurring in 2006 with 115 confirmed cases and 79 deaths, CNN reported. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 If it strikes China, where am I gonna get my plastic crap, Melamine-laced baby pacifiers and lead-based children's toys?? Oh noes! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-02-10 20:44 |
| #4 well December 2012 is coming so maybe they are on to something...it would go right along with all the other cheery news that is out there. I feel a whole lot better after I go to church. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2009-02-10 19:29 |
| #3 China is already in a quiet panic about H5N1. It is slowly and methodically increasing its endemic territory, and sporadically coming out and attacking just a person or two. By comparison, if it was in the US, on one day, a person in rural Utah, two days later, someone in Boston. Two days after that, one on the bayou in Louisiana. Then one in downtown Seattle. The US Department of Health would be freaking out. The zinger is that the H2H mutation might be almost mathematically derived, with each source like alarm clocks, and all set to go off at the same time. Echoes of "The Andromeda Strain". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-02-10 19:14 |
| #2 Sales are down and ex-pats are expensive? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-02-10 18:57 |
| #1 Do they know something we don't know? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-02-10 18:32 |