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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Pandemic flu: turning a drama into a crisis
UK health secretary Patricia Hewitt blames the ‘worried well’ for creating a shortage of flu vaccines. But who made the well worried?
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| Friday 14 October 2005 |
Brendan O’Neill
A tale of two scares
President Bush wants us to fear bin Laden; everyone else wants us to fear bird flu. We should tell both sets of apocalypse-mongers to get a grip.
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| Thursday 27 January 2005 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Fearing flu
Nobody knows whether or when there will be a new flu pandemic - but the panic about it is certainly bad for us.
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| Friday 6 February 2004 |
Rob Lyons
A poultry problem?
In dealing with avian flu, don't look to SARS for a model.
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| Tuesday 19 August 2003 |
Rob Lyons
A viral hurricane?
West Nile Virus is unlikely to make it up the Thames.
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| Tuesday 20 May 2003 |
Rob Lyons
WHO's to blame for the SARS panic?
The World Health Organisation's precautionary warnings ran ahead of the actual cases.
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| Wednesday 7 May 2003 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The cost of SARS
What a health panic can do to the global economy.
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| Thursday 3 April 2003 |
Mischa Moselle
The SARS farce
Fear, not disease, has put Hong Kong in quarantine.
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| Thursday 3 April 2003 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Viral scares
The overblown panic about SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) makes this Asia-bound traveller sick.
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