UK newspapers' representations of the 2009-10 outbreak of swine flu: One health scare not over-hyped by the media?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 941-946

  Hilton, Shona ^a   Hunt, Kate ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; EPIDEMIC; PERCEPTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; PUBLICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEAR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEWSPAPERS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED KINGDOM;

SUIDAE;

EID: 80955160657     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.119875     Document Type: Article

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