Larger organizations worldwide are more likely to have an avian flu response plan in place, although only about 3.3 percent of those with sales of $5-to-$10 billion have a plan, an underwriters' organization reported today.

Casualty & Property Insurance Underwriters Society provided those and other details in an eJournal article discussing pandemic risk preparation.

Of 553 companies surveyed by the Conference Board, a New York-based research organization, about 35 percent of companies with sales less than $100 million have no plan, compared with 7.1 percent of those with sales of more than $10 billion that have no plan, CPCU said.

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