{"id":35786,"date":"2013-05-28T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35786"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:04:01","slug":"bird-flu-scare-runs-morgan-stanley-event-out-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/bird-flu-scare-runs-morgan-stanley-event-out-of-asia.html","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Scare Runs Morgan Stanley Event Out Of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35790\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211;\u00a0Morgan Stanley has decided to postpone and move it&#8217;s hedge fund showcase from Shanghai to New York because of the rise in cases of Avian Influenza (bird flu) in China, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p>Some investors and managers refused to make the trip due to fears over recent deaths in the area,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s understandable but an over-reaction nonetheless,&#8221; said the head of Shanghai-based company\u00a0Z-Ben Advisors Ltd,\u00a0\u201cIf you look at the number of cases, number of deaths, it was coming down and it was nowhere near as bad as SARS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that drug resistance has been detected in patients infected with the new bird flu.\u00a0More than half the people who become infected with bird flu die of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, outbreaks of bird flu have occurred in Asia, Africa and parts of Europe.\u00a0Health officials worry that a global outbreak could occur if a bird flu virus mutates into a form that transmits more easily from person to person. Researchers are working on vaccines to help protect people from bird flu.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211;\u00a0Morgan Stanley has decided to postpone and move it&#8217;s hedge fund showcase from Shanghai to New York because of the rise in cases of Avian Influenza (bird flu) in China, Bloomberg reports. Some investors and managers refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16025,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35788,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35786\/revisions\/35788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}