Secret flu plan inoculates Square Mile

With eerie prescience, the City tracked a pandemic using a 'bird flu' scenario in 2006 – leaving it better prepared for the effects of the swine flu outbreak

The flu pandemic will affect 15 million Britons and kill 300,000. The economy will face meltdown and banks will run out of cash. Share prices will plunge 30 per cent and oil jump by $20 a barrel. The London Stock Exchange will shorten its trading hours and crime will rise.


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