Every twenty or thirty years, epidemics of virulent respiratory diseases sweep across the world, causing tens of thousands of deaths in Britain and America. For some reason, we have forgotten all the previous such incidents, but seized obsessively upon the latest. What role have governments and the mass media played in this curious business?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/highestnumberofexcesswinterdeathssince19992000/2015-11-25
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(2031201-0/fulltext
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
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