FEATURE : Politics turns flu into ‘pandemic of indecency’

PRIORITIES:Critics argue huge sums of money are being spent on a disease no more lethal than seasonal flu, while thousands die of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis each day

AFP , PARIS

“Around 80,000 children die from malaria and more than twice that number of diarrhoeal diseases worldwide in any four-week period,” they said. “On a scale of global health crises, the current H1N1 swine influenza outbreak would seem to rank low on the list. Why, then, has this outbreak caused such alarm?”

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