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The Ten Most Underreported Health Stories of 2011
Sickening inequality, climbing cholera, drug resistant bugs, and more.
By Crawford Kilian, Today, TheTyee.ca
snip:
The media cover disease in a predictable pattern. Normally, local outbreaks get only local attention. For an outbreak to gain worldwide interest, it must be sudden, surprising, and as fatal as possible. Even then, media interest is likely to fade within three or four weeks.
As well, governments are usually keen to discourage media interest in disease. Outbreaks make the local government look bad, and they discourage tourism. Apart from that, the public itself doesn't want to think about disease and dying if it can possibly avoid it.
Given such widespread attitudes, I found it easy to compile this list of the 10 most underreported health stories of the year:
read more - The Tyee
You can follow Crawford Kilian on Twitter.
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Sickening inequality, climbing cholera, drug resistant bugs, and more.
By Crawford Kilian, Today, TheTyee.ca
snip:
The media cover disease in a predictable pattern. Normally, local outbreaks get only local attention. For an outbreak to gain worldwide interest, it must be sudden, surprising, and as fatal as possible. Even then, media interest is likely to fade within three or four weeks.
As well, governments are usually keen to discourage media interest in disease. Outbreaks make the local government look bad, and they discourage tourism. Apart from that, the public itself doesn't want to think about disease and dying if it can possibly avoid it.
Given such widespread attitudes, I found it easy to compile this list of the 10 most underreported health stories of the year:
read more - The Tyee
You can follow Crawford Kilian on Twitter.
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