“Epidemiologists love the word ‘could’ because it can always assure them of a headline.”
, London, arguing that the swine flu scare was overhyped by media-hungry scientists
“The risk is not hyping the pandemic threat, but underplaying it.”
“Influenza A H1N1 is certainly a public health disaster requiring extensive new coverage… But the meningitis epidemic in west and central Africa is a massive killer today. And I’m guessing your readers haven’t heard one word of it.”
Marc Dubois, executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières (UK), in a
