6/8. Pandemic. Real and constructed footage helps tell the story of the biggest threat to life for a generation - the next strain of deadly flu. The UK government's Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan predicts up to three-quarters-of-a-million British deaths should such an outbreak occur. Hospitals and emergency services would be overwhelmed, and there would be insufficient capacity to dispose of the bodies. The US government's plan makes equally grim reading, It predicts the potential for two million deaths in America alone, and suggests illness will be worst among school-aged children. In this feature-length edition of Horizon, scientists, government planners, the media and the public bring to vivid and disturbing life an imagined event many see as inevitable. Directors/Producers Peter Leonard and Emma Sutton
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