Johnson steps up fight against pandemic flu - The Guardian 23rd November 2007

The health secretary, Alan Johnson, yesterday announced a dramatic increase in plans to combat pandemic flu, committing the government to buying enough drugs to treat half the UK's population. Previous plans to tackle the predicted flu pandemic have assumed that 25% of the population at most would be infected by the virus. But the national framework launched yesterday prepares for an "attack rate" of 50% - double the proportion infected in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

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