Bird-flu concerns hit currencies, airline shares
Roche shares rise as company manufactures antiviral Tamiflu, as MarketWatch reports here: Concerns that the killer bird flu virus may have been spread from human to human hurt Asian currencies and European airlines on Wednesday. Currencies, including the Indonesian rupiah and the Australian dollar, edged lower after the World Health Organization said it couldn’t rule out that a father in Indonesia may have caught bird flu from his son.