Special Report: The Bird Flu and You
October 31, 2005
This week's essay from is from one of my favorite groups, Strategic Forecasting, Inc, or Stratfor for short. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX with a satellite office in Washington, DC and intelligence sources from around the world. Stratfor focuses on providing corporations, governments and individuals strategic intelligence on the economic, political and security issues that will affect them.
Stratfor produced a special report on October 24, 2005 addressing the risks of the bird flu. The news media likes to have alarmist headlines that help grab reader's attention, but Stratfor is interested in a more objective look at the issue. They see risk of a pandemic as always present, but lay out the argument why this one is not as ominous as the headlines want you to believe and that is why it was picked as this week's "Outside the Box."
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