Influenza

Employment Law: What to do if your staff get swine flu

20-Jan-2011

Last August the swine flu (H1N1 virus) pandemic was declared as 'over' by the World Health Organisation. But as we make our way through winter and...

'Alcohol-related hospital admissions soar by 47% to a million in the last five years'

16-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

The number of people admitted to hospital because of alcohol is approaching a million a year, shock figures revealed yesterday. Drink-related...

'Brits spend £40,000 on rounds of drinks in lifetime''

04-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

The average pubgoer spends £39,480 in a lifetime getting their round in. Each drinker can expect to shell out around £840 a year keeping...

Swine flu survey: tell us the impact on pubs

07-Aug-2009 By John Harrington

Is swine flu having an impact on the pub trade at all? Tell us your experiences of the pandemic. Have staff been off or has trade dipped?

'Swine flu skivers cost firms more than virus, say employers'

06-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore

Thousands of healthy workers are thought to have taken advantage of official guidelines on the pandemic to extend their summer holidays. By simply...

Pubs braced for swine flu

30-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

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Pub trade calm in face of swine flu

29-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna

As the number of new swine flu cases topped 100,000 in the UK last week, the pub trade remains calm in the face of the pandemic.

Wales tackling bird flu outbreak

29-May-2007

Public health officials in Wales are investigating a 'mild strain' of bird flu which may be spreading by person to person contact.The Chief...

Imported meat 'most plausible' cause of bird flu outbreak

16-Feb-2007

Turkey meat imported from Hungary was the most likely cause of the bird flu outbreak at a Bernard Matthews turkey plant in Suffolk, according to a...

Bird flu fails to dent pub poultry sales

13-Apr-2006 By Fiona McLelland

Pubs are keeping poultry on the menu despite the arrival of bid flu to the UK. Tests last week confirmed that the H5N1 avian flu virus was present in...