Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat

CHAPTER 15: GLOSSARY OF TERMS

ITEM	EXPLANATION
AKA	Also known as
Antibiotic Apocalypse	A point in time when vital medicines in use today (e.g. antibiotics) become useless due to the development of bacterial and viral resistance
Antigenic Shift	When two or more different strains of viruses combine to form a new hitherto unknown strain for which there will be no human resistance or vaccines
ARDS	Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is a severe, life-threatening medical condition characterised by widespread inflammation in the lungs
Bamboo Curtain	A political line of demarcation applied to the communist states of eastern Asia, similar to the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union, although primarily used in reference to China
Bovine Spongiform ...