Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson is predicting 50,000 deaths from avian flu in the UK next year. Yet so far only 61 people have died from the virus, all of them have had close contact with infected chickens and those deaths were spread across Cambodia , Vietnam , Indonesia and Thailand . We look behind the statistics with some leading experts, Sir Liam Donaldson , Dr John Watson , from the Health Protection Agency, Professor Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London, Tim Bennett , President of the National farmers' Union and Dr James Kirkwood , Director of Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.
