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How would Britain cope with a pandemic?
How would Britain cope with a pandemic?
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2007
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Channel 4 News
A government paper looks at how Britain would cope with a flu pandemic - and predicts 16 million would be infected.
It has the potential to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in this country, but no-one can be sure if it will ever happen.
Whitehall and health authorities across Britain have been working on a massive paper exercise charting the possible course of a flu pandemic.
The scenario is that the virus emerges in South East Asia - but is brought to Britain by a businessman on an airline flight.
Within two months - nearly 400,000 people will have died. So how prepared now are officials for a possible outbreak?
Our home affairs correspondent Andy Davies reports
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