Comments:Swine flu reported in more countries; WHO warns of possible pandemic risk

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Wow! I cant believe wikinews is like the mainstream media. Terrorizing people at every chance. *sigh* This sort of news only scares people and makes them stay home, watch tv, buy stuff they dont need etc. It's not good! 118.241.181.188 10:13, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

I was going here because I wanted to say my judgement now is that managing to contain the illness is the less likely outcome - so I have to disagree with your opinion above: If people let themselves be scared by news like this beyond the appropriate response, that's unfortunate. Not informing them, however, isn't an option. Sean Heron (talk) 12:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC). P.S. I think the closest comparison might be made with the following: w:Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome - which obviously did not result in a pandemic. I would certainly hope that we now similiarly come away with just a "scare". Sean Heron (talk) 16:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
P.P.S. I thought this was interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/flu.computer.modeling/index.html

i think the death toll in mexico went up a few more cases Maxwell (talk) 20:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply