Public health officials ylireagoida swine flu?

Only weeks after the spread of influenza a (H1N1)-commonly referred to as "swine flu" caused local alerts for public health emergencies at the international level, the questions are whether and to what extent the public resulting from the outbreak of the disease and unknowingly launched an unnecessary overreacted and undesirable behaviors.

This is important for the development of the debate recognised David p. Fidler, Indiana University., Maurer School of Law, and the author of the law, James Louis biosecurity Calamaras, Professor of Global Age: biological weapons, public health and the right to rule.

However, people should be wary of hype about the outbreak and answers to a simple led ostensibly "panic" in public health, he cautioned.

"We have seen the irrational responses to public health warnings on the influenza A (H1N1), whether or not we have a ' very concerned ' emergency rooms or burdening a ban on pork products from countries affected by the imports from the countries of new viruses," said Fidler.

"Some of the estimated overreaction and sometimes unavoidable when societies deal with the serious communicable disease threats, because such threats are answers to some common questions about causes, in the context of the often very uncertain, as the case may be, has been the case with this new influenza virus," he observed.

"Unlike the Hurricane or tornado, where the damage is geographically limited, easily perceived and experienced on a regular basis, in particular, certain communicable diseases, avian influenza, may appear unexpectedly and spread quickly and silently throughout the community, the nation and the planet, and the researchers before political decision-makers fully understand the threat," explained Fidler.

"Microbial threats often cause a collective fear, which makes the promotion of the response is based on the best available science and public health principles, difficult," he continued.

"However, as a result, compared to the experienced anthrax in 2001 and 2003 SARS epidemic since climatic conditions, I am sensing a lot less panic and more caution," noted Fidler, "which reflects part of the preparations made by Governments at all levels of the potential for pandemic influenza. (I) be released at the end of the outbreak, if this is our remaining, whether the action in the field of public health countermeasures for appropriate instead of counting and — thousands of killed influenza virus, the fear is that we are not enough. "