Britin warned over bird flu pandemic, 'impossible to contain' says expert

Britain would be "overwhelmed" if a deadly strain of pandemic bird flu reached its shores, a leading expert warned today.

Once the virus spread as far as the UK it would be impossible to contain, said Professor Neil Ferguson.

The only chance of averting a global disaster costing many millions of lives would be to snuff out the strain rapidly at its point of origin in south-east Asia.

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