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Originally Posted by andyb
SO you think there may be an outbreak this winter? We've had to fill in questionnaires asking if we could still get to work etc if family members became ill.
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Put it like this, the Public Health people for all seven of the PCTs I'm involved with all sing the same song - 'It's not a case of if, it's a case of when'.
I'm sure we'll see the usual winter 'flu outbreak this year, but that's not really anything unusual - most of the really concentrated planning is going into the bird 'flu situation - dealing with a minimum 25% employee sickness rate, overflowing mortuaries, transport breakdown, etc.
Since our organisation will be involved in transporting Tamiflu around, we're even having to consider the security implications, like lockboxes in vehicles to which drivers don't have access, etc etc.