Bird flu exercise tests APEC communications
Reuters
June 7, 2006

The 21 members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group began a bird flu disaster exercise on Wednesday to test how countries inform each other about the risks of a flu pandemic.


The exercise, the first of its kind to involve all major economies of the Asia-Pacific region, involves a hypothetical outbreak of the deadly virus among fishermen in an unidentified Asian village, which then leads to human-to-human transmission.


"Early notification and making sure early notification is to the right people in the different economies is absolutely central to us collectively developing a response to an international pandemic," exercise coordinator Trevor Clement told Reuters.

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