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BANDIT Questions the H1N1 Media Craze, and Tries to Give AIDS Its Sexy Back!

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 26th, 2009

Swine flu aka H1N1 (and money) is all we seem to hear about in the news at the moment. Mixed messages on the severity of the so called pandemic. The big problems in Mexico, USA spreading fear amongst its people - where it is in Europe - and where should you go or not go, breathe or not breathe.

But more than a disease, it's now also a fashion illness... yes you read right. The good people of Mexico City have by now gotten so used to wearing surgical masks, a "trend" that the bird flu started a few years ago.

But that just makes the important question we ask seem even bigger! Did the media forget about AIDS' We all know falling in love with something...

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