Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Swine flu: 'Scaremongering' public health adverts from 1976 outbreak

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5235301/Swine-flu-Scaremongering-public-health-adverts-from-1976-outbreak.html


These public health commercials from 1976, when doctors feared that an outbreak of the virus in the US could become a pandemic, attempted to heighten fears of the disease to increase the take-up of vaccinations.