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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The number of people that could die in a flu pandemic that matches the 1918-19 outbreak will be " very scary" and far higher than the 62 million deaths forecast by a recent study, an adviser to the White House said on Monday.



" I think that number is a very optimistic number if we are talking about a 1918-wide pandemic today," said Rajeev Venkayya, Special Assistant for Biodefense to U.S. President George W. Bush.



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Venkayya did not give a forecast of possible deaths in a pandemic -- which the World Health Organisation and other experts say is inevitable and overdue -- but said the number of fatalities could be frightening.



" The bottom line is that they (U.S. government guesses about a toll) are all very high and all very scary," Venkayya told a meeting attended by government health and defence officials organised by a business chamber in New Delhi.