http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000108/2/d8f8.html

surfing on break. maybe not directly y2k related, but this will certainly place stress on health care infrastructure in UK. any comments on reliability of government reports in general?

-- mike in houston (m.morris@hotmail.com), January 08, 2000

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LOL, guess no one felt to comment yet on that question about the reliability of .gov reports, but I'm sure it's easy enough to figure out which side of the fence most folks stand on.

"Professor Liam Donaldson said that 300 people in every 100,000 now have the bug, and described Britain as being in the grip of a "serious epidemic".

The scale of the problem is thought to be much greater than statistics suggest because of the thousands of people calling the helpline NHS Direct - thus bypassing surgeries - and using drop-in health centres. "

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 09, 2000.

My wife is a phamacist out here in MD, and she is going nuts with all the flu patients. DRs are prescribing all kinds of antibiotics, even though they don't work on viruses. May help with the secondary infections, which are pretty common this year though.

Hospitals around here are pretty full. I PRAY I don't get it, nor my wife.

-- Bill (billclo@msgbox.com), January 09, 2000.

O.T. flu in the air

Everything you ever wanted to know about this flu epidemic and more.

-- buggy (cough@sore.rack), January 09, 2000.