By Joshuah at 17 July, 2009, 6:44 am
A swine flu pandemic could be more devastating than a terrorist attack, a police officer has warned as the UK death toll from the virus reached 29.
Superintendent Steve Anderson from West Midlands Police said officers could be forced to stop non-emergency work in a worse case scenario.
He said the force rated swine flu along with terrorism, heatwave and flooding and concluded “a worse case scenario is that pandemic flu would be worse than any of those”.
He spoke after it emerged that 26 people have died in England and three in Scotland, including a tourist with significant underlying medical conditions who died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on Wednesday night.
Source/Full Story:: Yahoo! News UK
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