"According to a report generated by the Congressional Budget Office, during a bird flu pandemic millions of people would stay home, avoiding work or travel, fearing to venture out in public, which would cause economic losses for restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. Reported by Bloomberg Business News
IAQM is one of the leading decontamination companies in the industry today.
IAQM was incorporated in 2001 by D.R. Vrana. His affiliations, relationships, and work with professionals from universities, insurance, and business communities have transformed the mold remediation industry. The business model of IAQM is to translate results from research and development of safe, effective military decontamination applications for wartime use to the civilian side. Products developed and proven by the military, along with their protocols, can also have consumer and workplace applications.
During the last five years, IAQM has successfully decontaminated millions of cubic feet of interior air space in schools, hotels, casinos, government facilities and residences across the United States. IAQM is now providing commercial, industrial, and healthcare entities a safe, effective, in-house Localized Incident Decontamination (L.I.D.) response package.
Threats of weaponized anthrax and the effects of infectious diseases such as SARS, Norwalk, Mad Cow, and HIV have televisions, newspapers and airwaves for the past five years. Even more threatening is the utter devastation and from an Avian Influenza pandemic. Together, all of these diseases provide a real threat to people and companies nationwide. safe, non-toxic, and non-corrosive decontamination agents, that threat can be managed quickly and effectively.
The lesson learned in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina is that the government may be too overwhelmed to handle in a national health crises. If commercial businesses and educational facilities do not prepare for the inevitable coming of a pandemic such as avian flu, then it will spread more rapidly with even greater devastation. Growing evidence that the deadly virus poses a serious threat is bolstered by its 57% mortality rate.
So far, avian flu has been concentrated primarily in Southeast Asia, but has also been found in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and throughout Asia. When the disease first gained notoriety, it could only be transmitted to humans when they came into direct contact with an infected bird or the waste products of an infected bird. In the first half of 2006, an outbreak in Indonesia occurred in which human to human transmission is suspected. This changes everything: once the virus jumps from person to person in multiple pockets, a pandemic has begun.
Outside of the grave physical and emotional damage that a deadly influenza pandemic could inflict, there could be enormous economic consequences as well. Some task forces studying this issue have predicted that as many as one third of employees nationwide would not report to work once a widespread flu struck. Direct economic impacts have been estimated at $800 billion in the USA alone.
Employers, schools, and even families need to have biohazard contingency plans that include everything from cross-training key personnel, teaching better hygiene, and most importantly, a process to decontaminate localized incidents. The recent experience of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina shows that in the event of a major flu outbreak, we all may be "on our own" for a significant amount of time. You need the security of being fully prepared.
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