Legal aspects of feared flu pandemic are pondered

Communication, Iton emphasized, is also crucial during an outbreak. A priority is communicating with politicians early, he said, to prevent them from inflaming the situation with misstatements.

"We don't want them saying stupid things," Iton said, as the participants laughed.

Key in controlling an epidemic is media outreach, another panelist added.

"The blog doesn't bother me," said Jeffery Tanenbaum, a partner with the law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, referring to the hypothetical employee blog. "I'm operating on the principle that information is good."

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