The Next Big Fashion Accessory: Surgical Masks

The Bush Administration is releasing their action plan for dealing with a big flu outbreak:

Employers should have plans to keep workers at least three feet apart, colleges should consider which dormitories could be used to quarantine the sick, and flight crews should have surgical masks to put on coughing travelers under a draft of the government's pandemic flu plan obtained by The Associated Press.

The Bush administration forecasts massive disruptions if bird flu or some other super-strain of influenza arises in the United States. A response plan scheduled to be released at the White House on Wednesday warns employers that as much as 40 percent of the work force could be off the job and says every segment of society must prepare.

We're overdue for a pandemic flu, and this could be the one. Read the story for more info.