The Avian Flu Disease: A Case of Precautionary Failure

Abstract-The Precautionary Principle has been proposed as the proper behaviour to adopt in the face of the new catastrophic risks that have made their appearance in the last decades. We advance a workable definition of the Precautionary Principle and apply it to the possible outbreak among humans of...

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Main Authors: Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini
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