Hysteria-inducing UK flu article
[Yeah … this should sell some papers!]
County’s masterplan to deal with flu pandemic
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 07:30
Plans are being drafted to cope with an estimated 11,298 deaths across Lincolnshire if a flu pandemic takes hold.
Among the measures already outlined to deal with such a devastating wave of sickness are re-used grave plots, cold body stores and even ways of dissolving corpses in alkaline.
This “worst case scenario”, outlined in a new report, examines how a high mortality rate over the course of a 15-week epidemic might affect county services.
But Lincolnshire’s head of emergency planning, David Powell, says that the county’s burial and cremation services can cope with all but the most catastrophic situations.
Hospitals could be allowed to use refrigerated vehicles to store bodies. More grave diggers would be employed, including using local authority staff, and mechanical diggers used to dig plots at a faster rate, it says. …
More on this story in Saturday’s Lincolnshire Echo.