Eligibility for compensation for mesothelioma may vary from country to country. In the UK for example, a diagnosis of mesothelioma allows compensation via the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, War Pensions Scheme or through a Common Law claim from the firm/firms where the asbestos exposure occurred. Patients who cannot identify occupational exposure to asbestos are not entitled for compensation, however pathological confirmation of the diagnosis is not mandatory; establishing the diagnosis and causation on the balance of probability is sufficient, although an unequivocal diagnosis obviously removes any cause for debate. Earlier this year, a new legislation was made in the UK Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act whereby dependants of persons with mesothelioma became eligible to claim for lump-sum compensation after death http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/ acts2008a.  Antiviral resistance during pandemic influenza: implications for stockpiling and drug use BACKGROUND: The anticipated extent of antiviral use during an influenza pandemic can have adverse consequences for the development of drug resistance and rationing of limited stockpiles. The strategic use of drugs is therefore a major public health concern in planning for effective pandemic responses. METHODS: We employed a mathematical model that includes both sensitive and resistant strains of a virus with pandemic potential, and applies antiviral drugs for treatment of clinical infections. Using estimated parameters in the published literature, the model was simulated for various sizes of stockpiles to evaluate the outcome of different antiviral strategies. RESULTS: We demonstrated that the emergence of highly transmissible resistant strains has no significant impact on the use of available stockpiles if treatment is maintained at low levels or the reproduction number of the sensitive strain is sufficiently high. However, moderate to high treatment levels can result in a more rapid depletion of stockpiles, leading to run-out, by promoting wide-spread drug resistance. We applied an antiviral strategy that delays the onset of aggressive treatment for a certain amount of time after the onset of the outbreak. Our results show that if high treatment levels are enforced too early during the outbreak, a second wave of infections can potentially occur with a substantially larger magnitude. However, a timely implementation of wide-scale treatment can prevent resistance spread in the population, and minimize the final size of the pandemic. CONCLUSION: Our results reveal that conservative treatment levels during the early stages of the outbreak, followed by a timely increase in the scale of drug-use, will offer an effective strategy to manage drug resistance in the population and avoid run-out. For a 1918-like strain, the findings suggest that pandemic plans should consider stockpiling antiviral drugs to cover at least 20% of the population. Taking into account the above assumptions, the model can be expressed as the following system of deterministic differential equations: