http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : According to sources in Great Britain the swine flu epidemic could hit the UK even harder as the summer passes over into autumn and Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, said the world should brace itself for more deaths.
Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson has said it is unlikely the current strategy employed in the United Kingdom, isolating every case, handing out anti-viral drugs to all contacts and closing schools would continue, but that eventually the numbers infected were likely to be too great to contain the pandemic in this way.
Dr Chan warned that the virus was unpredictable, and those countries that thought they were through the first wave, including Mexico where it began, should prepare for a second.
Countries must maintain vigilance, but, she added: "No previous pandemic has been detected so early or watched so closely right at the beginning."
Donaldson compared the pandemic to those in 1957/8 and 1968/70. Between 12 and 15 million people in the UK became ill in each of them, with 30,000 and 25,000 deaths. Around 4,000-8000 die during a normal winter flu season.
Health secretary, Andy Burnham, has said the WHO's move should not worry people. "This does not fundamentally alter our approach, so people should not be alarmed," he continued.
The Scottish health secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, said containment alone was no longer an option in Scotland which accounts for more than a third of the UK's 822 cases, with the vast majority in Glasgow, where nine people are in hospital currently.
Scottish family doctors are allowed to diagnose swine flu and begin treatment without using specialist laboratory tests. The anti-viral drug Tamiflu will only be given to their closest contacts, to prevent the virus becoming drug-resistant, as well as to preserve stocks.
pandemic? nice scare speech. Ummm.. i thought we were calling this the Mexican flu virus? I eat pig everyday, im not sick. This is a big pile of BS, or should i say PS. Trying to scare us americans like that, we are only afraid of the word 911, and terrorists. So keep your scare speeches to your self UK doctor guy, Americans are not scared of your swine flue, unless you say it came from 911, or it was the terrorist swine flu, or bin-laden swine flu, or anything that can tie the swine flu to al kida, or N. Korea. NOw if you said it was a pandemic from Al Kida N. Koreaian terrorist swine flu that came from 911, then boy o boy we will drop a nukle to kill this swine flu insurgent!!!
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