Swine flu here – so what should we do?
Well, it seems that swine flu has arrived for-real in Australia, with over 100 cases around the country, many of whom have caught the virus here. Children seem to be most susceptible. But most of the cases to date seem [...]
Thinking about risk and swine flu
The misallocation of attention and resources on rare but spectacular risks, to the detriment of dealing with mundane but far more lethal ones, is something I’ve personally commented on more than once; our skewed psychology of risk is still not [...]
Why swine flu and why now?
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Or even a new phenomenon? Mike Davis thinks not: But what matters more (especially given the continued threat of H5N1) is the larger configuration: the WHO’s failed pandemic strategy, the further decline of [...]
A new flu
It seems that there is a new strain of influenza on the loose: American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in [...]
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