News re-runs

[didymus]

Everything old is news again. I found this linked on Fr Tim Finnigan’s blog:

Daily Mail (UK):

3m body bags could be ordered in flu alert

Ministers are considering stockpiling more than three million body bags because of fears of an impending flu pandemic, a senior Government source has revealed.
Experts have warned that a mass outbreak is ‘overdue’ - and when it arrives, 25 per cent of the population could be infected.

06 November 2006

Do body-bag makers start these flu scares every few years? Or do biologists just always hope this will be the one?