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Vinay Mistry

“It’s life Jim, but not as we know it”

Posted by Vinay Mistry on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 9:10 am

A spurious (yet timely) titled lead into an area of the catastrophe bond market that is often over looked—namely, the mortality catastrophe bond market.
The recent incidence of Swine flu has brought some attention to the mortality bond market, and cat bond market issuers and investors will doubtless be keeping a watchful eye on the development [...]

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Trevor Maynard

Swine flu – pandemic fears

Posted by Trevor Maynard on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

The Emerging Risks Team at Lloyd’s has been looking at the economic and insurance impacts of pandemics and published a report into the possible insurance impacts of a pandemic (pdf) in 2008, which was also summarised in this recent CII think piece (pdf) .   
The current strain of flu that’s causing concern is of the H1N1 type; different to [...]

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Trevor Maynard

Floogle—epidemic warnings from a search engine

Posted by Trevor Maynard on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Google have come up with an innovative use of their search engine.  They have noticed that the number of people making queries like ‘flu symptoms’ is strongly correlated with the number of doctors visits due to the flu in that region.
Google explain their work  and provide a link to this paper (pdf) from Ginsberg et al which [...]

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Trevor Maynard

Big Brother is watching you….sneeze

Posted by Trevor Maynard on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm

Scientists are planning a “big brother” style experiment to test some theories about the transmission of the flu.  They will infect a number of individuals and then expose them to a variety of social situations to see how the flu is transmitted.

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