When does your health stop being a personal matter and become part of your company’s business continuity plan? How does a company decide that influenza is a legitimate business concern, but other, more pervasive, debilitating diseases and maladies are not? About 14,000 Americans died of AIDS in 2009, while 3,700 Americans died of H1N1 influenza. Companies distributed masks and gloves to employees for influenza; why not condoms for HIV? The business impact of diet, diabetes and hypertension in the workforce is already far greater than the business impact of influenza, and is likely to be greater in the future, too. This presentation explores – controversially – the risk and likelihood of emerging diseases, often from Asia, and why it should be a legitimate business continuity strategy to tell employees to eat less, drink more water and to take the stairs instead of the elevator.

1. Disease, Health & BCM Nathaniel Forbes www.calamityprevention.com Singapore

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typhus Newcastle disease New world arenavirus Nipah virus encephalitis New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease Opisthorchiasis Oropouche fever Orthopoxvirus Paragonimus infection Parrot fever Pasteurellosis Pentastoma spp. Pest Plague Pneumocystosis Pox Pseudocowpox Q-fever Rabies Rat bite fever Relapsing fever Rickettsia infections Rift-valley fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever Ross-river fever Russian spring summer encephalitis (RRSE) Salmonellosis Sandfly fever Sarcocystis infection SARS Schistosomosiasis Scrub typhus Sindbis fever Sparganosis Splenic fever Sporotrichosis Staphylococcosis St. Louis encephalitis Stomatitis papulosa Streptococcus infections Strongyloides infection Swimmer's itch Swine influenza Swine vesicular disease Tacaribe complex arenavirus Taenia infection Ticks Tick borne encephalitis Tick borne fever Tick borne relapsing fever Toxocariasis Toxoplasmosis Trichinellosis Trichophyton infection Tsutsugamushi fever Tuberculosis Tularemia Venezuelan equine 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