Bird Flu Worry

Public Radio Program "On The Media" looked at the issue of Bird Flu hysteria over the weekend.

NYU Professor Marc Seigal gives some interesting viewpoints on what is going on. His comments support an Op-Ed commentary that I wrote back in March of this year and published here a few days ago.

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From the On The Media Program:
Aired May 19, 2006

Sick With Worry

Avian flu continues to garner headlines – last week’s good, but this week’s bad. In either case, concerns about a pandemic are still real, at least judging from the press. And yet fewer than 150 people have been killed by the illness worldwide. Mike Pesca talks about media and the politics of panic with NYU professor of medicine Marc Siegel, who thinks one of the biggest threats to public health is fear.

Click here to Listen to the segment.

To read my Bird Flu Commentary, which was originally written in March of this year.

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