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H1N1 Returns To Minnesota?

February 11, 2010

The Minnesota Department of Health in its’ update of weekly influenza activity reported this week outbreaks of H1N1 in  two schools.   CIDRAP reports a slight increase of H1N1 at some U.S college campuses last week and that the CDC warns about flu at the Vancouver Olympics.

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“There Is No Cause For Alarm If Proper Precautions Are Observed.” Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon General 1918. Threat of [H1N1] “Cause for Concern, But Not Alarm.” Barack Obama, U.S. President, 2009.

September 24, 2009

J.M. Barry, (2009) writing in Nature [459: 324-5] on Pandemics: Avoiding The Mistakes of 1918 lists as a major mistake  by the government in addressing the 1918 pandemic was the communication strategy of reassurance.  J.M. Barry points out that in 1918  “This communication strategy of either reassurance or silence had its effect. Its effect was [...]

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