Threat of avian flu prompts trucking organization (US) to create task force

[Mellie]

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Threat of avian flu prompts trucking organization to create task force

Jerry W. Jackson | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 8, 2006

Truckers who haul food and farm products have formed an avian-flu task force to prepare for a possible pandemic that could cripple deliveries nationwide.

"We just felt it was time to get ready. These are serious threats," Fletcher Hall, executive director of the American Trucking Association's Agricultural Food Transporters Conference, said Tuesday in a telephone interview.

Hall said the conference's more than 500 trucking-company members, including big outfits in Florida, must be prepared for any eventuality if deadly bird flu becomes widely transmissible among humans. So far, it has not spread from Asia and Europe to North or South America, but health authorities and government agencies here are urging industries and families to follow the issue closely and prepare.


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Jerry W. Jackson can be reached at jwjackson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5721.

 

[Mellie]

Re: Threat of avian flu prompts trucking organization (US) to create task force

I'm glad they're planning. We're going to need those long and short haul truckers.

<psst> Moderators, maybe we need a little truck/air/ship icon? <chuckle> I like the graphics, I just need to remember to use them. They're a good cue to content!