Pandemics
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Europhrenia: Is this the end of the IPCC?
2 February 2010PresseuropBlog -
Romania: Swine-flu panic highly contagious
15 January 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Editorial: Be afraid, be very afraid
8 January 2010Presseurop -
Swine Flu: Was the pandemic a scam?
7 January 2010PresseuropL'Humanité -
Swine Flu: The germ of doubt
5 January 2010181 Presseurop -
Swine flu: Romania confesses vaccine not safe
27 November 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Netherlands: Vaccine panic outstrips pandemic
9 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Ukraine/Poland: Flu at the gates
2 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
Influenza A: Democracy brought down with H1N1
8 September 2009PresseuropLibération -
Swine flu: Big pharma's small-mindedness
5 August 200938 The Independent London -
Epidemic: Don't make a recession out of swine flu
21 July 2009Libération Paris
Several European governments are trying to resell millions of doses of swine flu vaccine. So was the threat exaggerated after all? The press takes the authorities to task. 
As swine flu goes global, the developing world is gearing up to produce cheaper generic versions of Tamiflu. Roche, the makers of the drug, however, is resisting a move that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. According to Johann Hari in the Independent, it is receiving backing from the unlikeliest of quarters - the World Health Organisation. 
National governments and international organisations are worried about the human and economic impact of the spread of the H1N1 virus. However, it is not the pandemic itself that is most likely to disrupt whole societies, but individual behaviours engendered by the ensuing panic, explains economist Pierre-Yves Geoffard.