Word: hysteria
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...sense doing a service. But without any of the information that is known about the epidemiology of the disease, information which was dispensed in liberal proportion at the SHAC forum and unfortunately omitted entirely from the Crimson article, that "social concern" is more likely to be translated into hysteria than into any constructive attempt at AIDS prevention...
...this decrease resulting directly from AIDS education. But as long as people are putting themselves and others at unecessary risk without a clear awareness of that risk, there is a long road ahead. The Crimson does well to awaken "social concern," but that concern is apt to degenerate into hysteria if it is not guided into a rational and constructive preventative channel. The press, with its great educative power, has a duty to direct that concern into AIDS prevention, rather than abandoning it to become AIDS hysteria. Richard B. Mintz '87 Publicity Coordinator, HR-GLSA
Wacker said he did not foresee any hysteria about the disesase at Harvard. "We didn't have a bad reaction to a death at Harvard [of and AIDS patient]," he said...
...called the parents movement a "hysteria campaign," and said that record companies, not the parents group, would determine what is obscene. Zappa said the labels would not prevent anyone from buying the records...
...Health Organization, considers this a head-in-the-sand attitude. "There is no special immunity to AIDS that Asians enjoy," he says. "By the time we diagnose the first case, it would have spread like wildfire." Gilada's view matches that in the world health community: while panic and hysteria are not called for, only a large dose of public education and preventive medicine can slow the rate at which AIDS is spreading around the world...