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Welcome to Agilent's Crisis Management page. This page is intended to provide the status of current crisis activities.
Customer Information Agilent has a pandemic planning and preparation process which highlights specific actions triggered by successive announced elevations of the WHO Alert Phases and other public health agencies. Our goal is to limit the spread of infection within our work environment while maintaining continuity of the critical operations in order to minimize any disruption to our customers and continue to provide them with a high level of support. H1N1 Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs. H1N1 flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with H1N1 flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of H1N1 flu viruses has currently been documented with outbreaks beginning in Mexico and spreading globally. The symptoms of H1N1 flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with H1N1 flu. Severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with H1N1 flu infection in people. H1N1 may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions. The highest fatalities have occurred in pregnant women, people with underlying chronic diseases, infants, young children, young adults and indigenous people. Current Alert Phase 6
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