Tourism Industry Ponders Bird Flu ; Sars Response Provides Guide
The Washington Times › April 13, 2006
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The tourism industry is taking lessons from the SARS outbreak in 2003 on how it will respond if bird flu reaches pandemic and industry-crippling levels, executives said yesterday at the Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Washington.
"Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus," said Francesco Frangialli, secretary-general of the U.N. World Tourism Organization. "The day a pandemic will start, the picture will change totally."See the full content of this document
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Tourism Industry Ponders Bird Flu ; Sars Response Provides Guide
The World Tourism Organization estimates that 2 million people cross international borders daily, putting them in key positions to transmit disease....
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