Sir Donaldson
Sir Donaldson
care infection millions patients treatment worldwide
Infection complicates the treatment and care of millions of patients worldwide every year,
cannot flu prevent reduce
We cannot prevent a flu pandemic, but we can reduce its impact.
flu health impact inevitable pandemic serious
It's inevitable that when the flu pandemic comes...it will have a very serious impact on the health of our country.
countries early embarked few lead until
We are one of the few countries to have embarked on this stockpiling at a very early stage... until now, we have been one of the countries which has been in the lead on this, and it is part of a comprehensive plan.
coming rate
They're coming in at the rate of 800,000 a month.
less likely
I think it's less likely that it will come this winter.
against develop existing immunity natural people problem vaccines work
But if we had a pandemic, the problem would be that our existing vaccines don't work against it, we would have to develop a new vaccine, and people don't have natural immunity because it hasn't be around before.
excess flu normal winter
In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people,