Flu furore
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Flu furore
In January, just when H1N1 swine flu virus might well have been hitting the headlines as the cause of one of the UK's worst epidemics of all time, there was an outbreak of a rather different kind. This was an outpouring of media assertions that last year both scientists and the government had grossly exaggerated the virus's likely impact. Alleged reasons for needless panic-mongering ranged from...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.01.028