With my original fallback plan for email failure (carrier pigeons) already in bloody, feathery tatters, I do what any self-respecting crisis manager would – and consult the internet.
One reputable online lexicon defines a pandemic as: “a disease prevalent across a whole country or large part of the world”. Although bird flu in the UK is currently confined to one exclusive, picturesque area of Scotland, bird flu fever – the far deadlier sense of panic associated with the illness – has indeed spread rapidly to every corner of the office.
