title: Swine flu panic shows how little we really care.
abstract: I have to confess that when the first reports of swine flu started circulating, I did have a strong sense of déjà vu - after all, we've been here before. Back in 2003, the world was under threat from another potentially lethal virus that began in an economically deprived part of the world among animal stocks and briefly (according to some anyway) threatened to turn into a global pandemic--Avian flu.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beckford-Ball
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology