UK Bird Flu

The Government are apparantly pledging to buy enough vaccine to cover the whole population when Bird Flu goes pandemic. Of course these words sound good, but there are a few fundamental issues here:

• No-one can create a vaccine until the human-to-human virus emerges
• It has been said that it will take six months to create a vaccine
• Every country in the world will want the vaccine, so production volumes will become an issue

That said, it's very interesting that although "there is no problem", the Government seems very jumpy about this.

Could it be that it has been detected in places we are not being told about yet...?

# posted by steve @ 2:05 pm