Two teams of researchers, nearly 40 scientists in all, have announced they will "pause" work on easily transmissible avian influenza viruses while they address concerns that publication of their studies might enable bioterrorists to create superlethal, highly contagious viruses of their own.

Is your company ready for the days -- and potentially weeks -- when most of your employees have to get their jobs done from home because of illness? And those remaining want to work at home so they, too, don't fall ill?