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we could have a mild outbreak that is contained to the Far East

There are several potential outcomes to the mutation pattern that influenza
follows. There is a weak outbreak where only sporadic infections are occurring and the influenza never makes it past the stage of being sporadic.
As I mentioned earlier, some scientists believe this is a likely outcome as
This would potentially mimic the SARS outbreak scenario where it was a
short, sharp shock to the system for the area in which the outbreak occurred,
but it didn’t spread further. We know from Chapter 4 that hotels, airlines,
tourism, shopping malls, and entertainment industries are all on the front
line for seeing their stock prices decline. Hospitals and health care providers
would be early winners as their beds get filled beyond their limits. We can
also anticipate weaker currencies initially in those countries where the
disease spreads. However, this could be a great buying opportunity if we see
a larger force at work such as a Federal Reserve easing cycle. Another aspect
to this would be an overreaction to a perceived outbreak by the central

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