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...true pandemic situation, the state of panic would be unavoidable and probably much more severe. But, for swine flu, we truly have nothing to fear but fear itself...
...just the media: The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert to the second-highest level last week. Even my mother, a practicing doctor, called me on Monday to tell me to avoid riding the subway. While it’s clear we’ll survive the swine flu, who knows if we can handle the mass hysteria...
...also create enmity between once-cooperative countries over who was to blame for the contagion, which could touch off a powder keg in sensitive areas like the Taiwan Strait or Palestine. In addition, the blame for the disease may take on an ethnic or racial component. In the U.S., swine flu has already encouraged latent racism against Latinos to bubble to the surface. For organizations where keeping calm is a daily struggle, like prisons, pandemic panic can lead to riots or even murders...
...advocating that information about potential epidemics be hidden in order to keep the public docile. We should still warn the population at large and try to quarantine diseases before they spread, because, even though swine flu will likely turn out to be mild, our species remains highly vulnerable to rapidly communicable diseases...
Eight new cases of influenza linked to the Harvard Dental School have been deemed by local and state health officials “probable” infections of H1N1 “swine flu,” according to an announcement made by the Boston Public Health Commission at a press conference Friday afternoon. The announcement raises the total number of possible cases in the Boston area to nine, adding to the original diagnosis of a Dental School student that was announced last week. Of those nine, two cases tested as Type A influenza accompanied by “acute...