Professor Hugh Pennington
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[Media April 2003] Virus deadlier than predicted, expert warns Meanwhile, Professor Hugh Pennington, an expert microbiologist at Aberdeen University, warned that at least one Sars outbreak within the UK was highly likely. Britain had escaped relatively unscathed, with only six, non-fatal, cases reported so far. A suspected seventh case was given the all-clear yesterday in Sheffield.  But Prof Pennington predicted that an infected traveller would land in the UK, undetected, and spread the disease within their family or workplace. Emergency disease control plans would then swing into action, with at least one hospital in the infected city dedicated to Sars.

Daily Mail March 14, 2005