In 2002, the world had witnessed SARS in south east asia which resulted in several hundreds deaths not only in that region but across the world. So far, SARS is not eradicated it remains dormant. Thank god!. Then came avian flu which resulted in mass culling of birds and ofcourse, it had its human victims too. Now, the swine flu is "hog"ging the headlines. A kind of media propaganda makes the people to feel nervous about the disease.
The developing and underdeveloped world witnesses hundered of deaths in the form of malaria, dengue ferver, hepatitis -B cholera typhoid year after year but they do not "HOG" the media occasionally, they feature as a 'filler" in the developed world media as a warning notice to the travelers visiting the affected region.
