Instructor Notes, Catastrophe Course Unit 13

Pandemic Flu Scenario – 3. The current (at the time of this writing) case fatality rate (percentage of those who contract the disease and end up dying from it) for the H5N1 avian flu virus is over 50%. It is not easy to predict what the case fatality rate would be if the virus were to mutate such that it would pass easily from human to human. ................
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