Health Experts Bet on Spread of Bird Flu

(AP) -- Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? Wanna put some money on that? In an unusual effort to better predict the advance of a potential flu pandemic, public health experts will be staked about $100 apiece to bet on the spread of bird flu. This type of grim futures market has also been created to predict hurricanes and temporarily, a few years ago, terrorist attacks.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news91957014.html">Health Experts Bet on Spread of Bird Flu</a></p> <p>(AP) -- Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? Wanna put some money on that? In an unusual effort to better predict the advance of a potential flu pandemic, public health experts will be staked about $100 apiece to bet on the spread of bird flu. This type of grim futures market has also been created to predict hurricanes and temporarily, a few years ago, terrorist attacks.</p>