A story posted on April 27, 2009 referred readers to the British Government's pandemic flu contingency plan, released in November of 2007. The story leads with the disturbing reminder that "up to 750,000 Britons could die were a pandemic to strike with maximum force."  The authors summarize the plan as encompassing hygiene only at level 4,  but that by level 6 conditions would be more onerous, including school closures, voluntary isolation, and limitations of available health care services.