Ever since international public health authorities decided that a small outbreak of flu in Mexico offered a good opportunity to test drive their recently-prepared pandemic flu contingency plans, our local PCT has plunged enthusiastically into scare-mongering mode.1 Daily meetings of senior staff have rubber-stamped national policy, dutifully passing on algorithms and instructions (up to three times a day) from the Health Protection Agency and other bodies to local surgeries and pharmacies and generally promoting public anxieties about impending viral Armageddon.
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