Putting Things Into Perspective

Patients are treated for the 1918 flu pandemic in a ward at Fort Riley Kansas

The Secret's Out: Flu More Deadly Than Terror Attack -- The Scotsman

BRITAIN is most at risk from another terrorist attack on public transport, but a flu pandemic would have an impact on far more people, a government analysis warned yesterday.
It published its previously secret "national risk register" which sets out the most significant threats to the country over the next five years.

A flu pandemic is deemed to be likely to impact on the greatest number of people, with half the population likely to become infected and leaving between 50,000 and 750,000 dead.

But attacks on public transport, at a time the UK's terror threat status is "severe", are judged more likely, in the wake of the 7 July attacks in London in 2005 and those in Moscow and Madrid in 2004.

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My Comment: One more reason to applaud last months Predator strike on Abu Khabab al-Masri, Al Qaeda's main man for chemical and biological terror training and planning.