Health Experts Bet on Spread of Bird Flu

March 1st, 2007 in Medicine & Health / Diseases
Health Experts Bet on Spread of Bird Flu (AP)

Poultry traders wait for customers at a market in Ha Tay province near Hanoi, Vientam on Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007. The government earlier this week confirmed the first bird flu outbreak in northern part of the country in more than a year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

(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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