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A survey of health care workers has revealed that as many as 85% may stay off work if an influenza pandemic did take hold of the country. The results of the survey, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, suggest that levels of absenteeism may be significantly higher than current official estimates and that ‘willingness’, rather than ‘ability’, plays the largest role in health care workers’ decisions as to whether to go to work or not.

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