Sir Donaldson
Sir Donaldson
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,
care infection millions patients treatment worldwide
Infection complicates the treatment and care of millions of patients worldwide every year,