Swine flu panic shows how little we really care

• Published in: British Journal of Nursing
• Main Author: Beckford-Ball, Jason
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mark Allen Group 2009
• Subjects: General Nursing; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2009.18.9.42251; http://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.12968/bjon.2009.18.9.42251

Ihave 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.