Expanding its longstanding coverage and counsel regarding the avian flu, MEDEX Assistance today launched a comprehensive new website that provides the very latest authoritative updates on the potential pandemic....Coalesced from the world's leading medical and public health sources, the new website...serves as a one-stop dissemination point for the latest avian flu facts and data....Corporate managers, medical personnel, risk management professionals, and individual travelers can access updates regarding the spread of the H5N1 virus and precautions for minimizing the risk of infection, as well as expert analysis and links to vital business continuity planning information....
"While we all hope that an Avian Flu pandemic does not become a reality, we also recognize that ’hoping’ is not a viable strategy should it actually come to pass," stated MEDEX Assistance President and CEO Bruce Kirby. "Free and open access to information about such a dangerous global health risk is, in our view, the reasonable and responsible approach."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/04/2006 08:55:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
