It looks like the government have already started their propaganda machine for a hyped-up scare mongering campaign to instill fear in the population regarding an 'imminent' bird flu pandemic. A UK government spokesman is already claiming that there could be up to 50,000 deaths in the UK - we wonder if that's the same agenda that reckoned there would be 10,000 deaths in the New Orleans hurricane disaster....

What is fact though, is that the government won't be telling you the truth. Watch for more restrictions on civil liberties and freedom, and a gradual introduction of martial law taking place.

• UK contingency plan - 569KB PDF file containing the governments contingency plan for a bird flu pandemic.

• China says 19-year-old woman dies from bird flu - A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.
  Source: San Francisco Chronicle [6th Jan 2009]

• Flu jab for whole population plan - More scare mongering by the government, speculating that 50,000 people in the UK could die.