TY - JOUR
AU1 - Peter, Elizabeth
AU2 - Bot, Horatio
AB -  24 April 2009. The first report of H1N1 influenza appears on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website; hundreds of cases in Mexico, with 59 deaths. In the USA seven cases are reported. The first note in what will become a pandemic sweeping the world has been sounded. The web posting also adds another distressing element; ‘Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses characterized in this outbreak have not been previously detected in pigs or humans’. As April turns into May reports of new infections accelerate: the WHO issues 38 H1N1 updates between 24 April and 25 May. As of 21 August, and update 62, H1N1 has claimed nearly 1800 lives and infected more than 182 000 people. The New York Times has published nearly 1000 H1N1‐related articles in its pages (print and on‐line) in the last 30 days. Anxiety is rising. Parents worry about their children as news organizations tell us that schools and universities are on the front line of influenza infections with human victims being disproportionately 5–25 year olds. Crossing national boundaries, this virus threatens our health and in some cases our lives. Washing our hands seems an insufficient countermeasure to a threat that we cannot control and which 
TI - Containing anxiety in the wake of the H1N1 influenza pandemic: documents as sedative agents
JF - Nursing Inquiry
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00477.x
DA - 2009-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/containing-anxiety-in-the-wake-of-the-h1n1-influenza-pandemic-BpexZMO0di
SP - 273
VL - 16
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -