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Andrew, the vaccine plans for avian flu differ somewhat, I believe, from the usual ones; antivirals will play a greater part. (The Government's ordered, or the NHS has, enough antivirals for a quarter of the population.) There will be quarantine here, in the initial stages, anyway.
(I was "quarantined" during an outbreak of smallpox in South Wales. There was a total quarantine at the hospital where the outbreak occurred -- if it began there, I suppose no-one can be sure); we were all vaccinated, rapidly; and a voluntary quarantine covered the whole of South Wales. But that was relatively easy to implement.)

Charlie, I thought The Observer might be having a go, too (I read The Guardian during the week but don't always get The Observer); and perhaps they were. But here's the family -- not though saying exactly what Peter Scott said they'd said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4217022.stm

So it seems likely that some British ourists have indeed been caught up in the mess and have suffered from a lack of positive assistance.

That's probably true -- but it's also true that the National Guard helped the UK people in the Dome and the Convention Centre, both while they were there, and by getting them out.

Do you suppose these stranded British tourists were among the stranded tourists whisked to the head of the line of buses at the Superdome?

No idea -- I do know the UK people in the Superdrome were smuggled out of there by US troops, and the ones in the Convention Centre were got out by a National Guardsman.

My sense of this story

The Observer story? I've only seen it there, not in the Times or on the BBC or Channel 4.

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