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Swine flu redivivus

November 21, 2009

On another blog – the predecessor to this one – back in May I asked about the wisdom of panicked vaccinations. Now comes the report of Tamiflu resistant swine flu.
I still remain of the opinion that this will turn out to be – epidemiologically speaking – a storm in a teacup, but it looks as [...]

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An interesting swine flu fact

September 17, 2009

As the first UK rise for a while in the number of cases is announced (a fairly predictable one with the return to school) it’s worth noting this. From the Huffington Post:

2) Why are people concerned about the 2009 H1N1 pandemic?
Over the past century, three major pandemics have swept through the world and [...]

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Help! The world has turned upside down.

July 24, 2009

The world has turned upside down because:

I agree with an article in the Daily Mail by Simon Jenkins on pandemic panic
Said article in the Daily Mail is copyright Guardian News and Media
The Daily Mail is trying to damp down a health scare instead of cranking it up

The time is out of joint and swine flu [...]

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Harry Potter & swine flu: media madness and mundane reality

July 7, 2009

The media seem unable to give up their obsession with swine flu, and the idea that this is somehow a constant diaster about to happen, despite copious evidence now that so-called swine flu is actually a mild form of summer flu, whose only noteworthy character is that it seems to have begun in a crossover [...]

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