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Prepared for the worst?

Updated on 28 April 2009

By Joanna Simpson

More4 News asks how prepared is Britain for a pandemic like swine flu.

Travelers at Quito airport: Reuters

One of the reasons swine flu is so worrying for experts is that a serious outbreak of deadly flu is at some point going to happen. So for years now the government's advisers have been preparing a contingency plan.

Joanna Simpson reports.


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27 Apr 2009: Dr Peter Laing, chief operating officer at Lipoxen, talks to Emily Reuben about the spread of swine flu.

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