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...appearance of bird flu in the United States could cause extensive economic disruption, according to a new poll surveying 1,043 people by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
Currently, though no human cases have been found in Europe or the United States, the World Health Organization reported at least 92 confirmed human fatalities from the H5N1 flu virus—mostly in southeast Asia and China as well as Iraq and Turkey. The virus has already been found in commercial poultry in Asia, and, as of last Thursday, for the first time in Europe on a French turkey farm...
Professor of Public Health and Political Analysis Robert J. Blendon said that the preventive measures the public is prepared to take during an outbreak of the avian flu could cause an economic crisis within the United States...
...people surveyed in the study, 46 percent said that they would stop eating poultry if the flu appeared in American farm birds. If human cases appeared in their state, 71 percent said they would avoid public events and 68 percent said they would stay home and keep their children at home...
Blendon said that in the future, he hoped to do some later tracking on what people thought about the progression of bird flu as part of the series, and that two or three more surveys might be done if the threat persisted...