The H1N1 Flu pandemic caused mass hysteria throughout the world, but was this hysteria founded on fact or fabricated to manipulate public opinion? The Epidemic Island questions how fear shapes the public consciousness and how governments and trusted institutions use fear to exploit the public's vulnerability. The H1N1 flu was labeled as a deadly virus, but why then, in Veracruz, the so called epicenter of the pandemic, was there no death or panic?
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