Bird flu pandemic probably kill about 50,000 A bird flu pandemic will hit Britain - but not necessarily this winter, the chief medical officer has said. Sir Liam Donaldson said a deadly outbreak would come when a strain of bird flu mutated with human flu. He told the BBC's Sunday AM show it would probably kill about 50,000 people in the UK, but the epicentre of any new strain was likely to be in East Asia. The UK has so far stockpiled 2.5m doses of anti-viral drugs - and may restrict travel if there is an outbreak. A bird flu pandemic will hit Britain - but not necessarily this winter, the chief medical officer has said. Sir Liam Donaldson said a deadly outbreak would come when a strain of bird flu mutated with human flu. He told the BBC's Sunday AM show it would probably kill about 50,000 people in the UK, but the epicentre of any new strain was likely to be in East Asia. The UK has so far stockpiled 2.5m doses of anti-viral drugs - and may restrict travel if there is an outbreak. If a new strain did hit the UK before a vaccine was created, Sir Liam said an extra 50,000 would probably die - and a death toll of 750,000 was "not impossible".
50k people dead means 1 in every 1200 people in the country.. i dont moind those odds 1/1200 chance of dying from it
ten quid says theres no pandemic and theres nothing to worry about. The only pandemic here is one of fear and control.
No dout we will get the usual loser son here going "OH SHIT IM SO SCARED, I CANT GOTO LONDON COS OF TERROR AND NOW I CANT FEED THE BIRDS EITHER"
