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Swine flu pandemic
'could kill 750,000 in UK'
London: Up to 1.2 million people could be hospitalised
and 750,000 killed if the swine flu pandemic sweeps the nation, according to draft
Government guidance about an outbreak. As patients are "rapidly" overwhelming
hospitals, doctors may have to begin operating a lottery system for intensive
care, The Mirror quotes the blueprint, as saying. It also warns that a worst-case
pandemic scenario of "catastrophic severity" could result in the "complete or
partial collapse of some or all hospital infrastructures". Top medics have downplayed
the predictions, saying factors like Britain's high state of readiness and high
immunity levels will lessen the impact. The bleak forecasts come in "Pandemic
influenza: Surge capacity and prioritisation in health services", which was prepared
by the Department of Health (DH) last September. It says up to half the UK population
- or 30 million people - could get influenza if the bug outbreak turns into a
pandemic. -May
1, 2009
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