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Flu Vaccination Poses Biggest Challenge to U.K. Health System

The U.K.’s health system will face the biggest challenge in its 61-year history when it attempts to immunize more than 60 million people against swine flu this year, doctors and public health officials said.

“We haven’t done mass vaccination like this before,” said Laurence Buckman, chairman of the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners’ Committee.

An estimated 295,000 people [...]

Health bosses announce 20m will be vaccinated against swine flu by Christmas… as virus reaches Downing Street

Parts of Britain are in the grip of a swine flu epidemic today after the first healthy child died of the virus that is sweeping the country.

Chloe Buckley, six, died within 48 hours of complaining of a sore throat and just a day before her seventh birthday.

She was not given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu after her [...]