By Nan King

Panic, anxiety, scaremongering, conspiracies… but just a few months on, and swine flu seems to have been all but forgotten. Whilst we are much more likely to die of cancer or heart disease than we are of swine flu or terrorism, the latter two seem much more chilling. In this short podcast, I talk to experts on both sides of the pond, and ask if our emotional reaction to disease influences its spread.

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