Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action, and they are for the first time distributing information on the dangers of the disease. Moreover, most Western countries...
...face of it, the panic seems out of all proportion to the numbers involved. Compared with the U.S., which now has seen more than 14,000 cases, other countries appear to have a small number of AIDS victims. Among those nations that have issued official statistics, Brazil ranks second, with 483 known sufferers, followed by France (392), Haiti (377), Canada (323), West Germany (300) and Britain (225). Large areas of the globe, including India, China and the Soviet Union, have reported no indigenous cases at all. But the spread of the virus through international travel seems impossible to control...
...ship, the sense of panic increased as the gunmen became more desperate. Neither crew nor passengers seem to have considered trying to overwhelm the terrorists; they were too well armed and too erratic, and besides, very few people realized that there were only four gunmen on board. "From the way they were behaving," a diplomat who visited the ship later observed, "it seemed more likely that there were 20 hijackers rather than four...
...pleased to see The Crimson report on the forum on AIDS at the School of Public Health (10/3/85). In light of the widespread unfounded panic about AIDS and misinformation about the disease, it is crucial that accurate information receive media attention...
Misinformation such as that contained in this article contributes to the increasing AIDS panic, as well as to discrimination against AIDS victims and AIDS high risk groups. I am deeply troubled to see such misleading and unquestionably wrong information perpetrated throughout the press. Dorothee E. Benz...