miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009

Swine flu, or how to terrorize the people

The recent outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, which has caused many deaths, and that is affecting other countries, has unleashed a wave of fear in the population. Everything is due to the way the media usually report, this form is not very different from using a film director in a thriller or horror.

Fear image drops down to the stock exchange, makes people exhausted the stock of chinstrap, which automedique but the fear of the swine flu comes to nothing more than misinformation. It is important to learn well and not pay attention to rumors.

The World Health Organization has declared a state of alert, but it's just more to tackle an epidemic. The technical term is a pandemic, a term that provokes terror who reads or hears. But he says the word, it has been declared a disease that affects many people.

The fear comes from the story, which relates the word pandemic outbreaks that have taken thousands of lives. But that does not mean that each pandemic is equal, since today is very different from the pandemics that killed so many people in the past. Before there were no antibiotics, the people were overcrowded rather than separate, no one knew what it was a virus, people were not informed, everything was very easy spread of the fatal cases of influenza.

The problem is that fear leads to irrational behavior, such as self medication for no reason. Therefore it is best to be informed in order to eradicate the fear of the unknown, and given a course, see a doctor. But never act on their own. Fear can make people take antibiotics on their own, without taking anti-reason.

Pandemic, it is not to be alarmed, terrified, as is the media, but knowledgeable, attentive and calm.

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