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Doctor warns Britain unprepared for bird flu

LONDON (Reuters) - A doctor warned on Tuesday that preparations for a possible bird flu pandemic in Britain were inadequate and could put more lives at risk.

Dr Steve Hajioff, a general practitioner from London, urged private companies such as utilities and service providers to ensure they were properly prepared.

"We will have an influenza pandemic sooner or later -- it's 37 years since the last pandemic, there tend to be three every century, and I think it is a matter of when rather than if," Hajioff told BBC radio.

Britain has been on high alert for bird flu since it discovered the lethal H5N1 virus in a wild swan in Scotland in April.

"It needs adequate preparation. If 25 percent of the population become infected -- which is the Department of Health estimate -- you could expect maybe 40 percent of people away form work," Hajioff said.

He said that with so many people affected, some workplaces may have to close, creating a dangerous knock-on effect.

"In my surgery I can make every preparation I like, but if the power company that supplies me hasn't made appropriate preparations then I'm not going to have any electricity, and if the phones are out, my patients can't call in, and if the transport system isn't working, how do people get to me?"

Bird flu remains essentially an animal disease, but it has taken 127 lives among 224 cases in 10 countries since 2003.

Scientists fear bird flu could become highly dangerous to humans if the virus mutates into a form easily passed on from one person to another.

Source:http://uk.news.yahoo.com