Blog: Flu deja vu

We have a new flu case! Hurray, that is big news and for some an opportunity to make a lot of money. Since the beginning of the swine flu or as it is called now, the Mexican flu, we have seen many people panicking and talking about the danger of a new pandemic. TV and radio commentators, as always, immediately made comparisons with the Spanish flu, which tortured the world a century ago with the death of more than 50 million people, to scare the listener. Did they not do that also at the time t