OCD and the Swine Flu – Part 2

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As summer ends, students return to school, and flu-season appears on the horizon, the drumbeat of panic about Swine flu is starting to increase again.  Yesterday (August 25, 2009), the CNN website had a headline that read: “Swine flu could cause up to 90,000 U.S. deaths”.  On the same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story that reported that 20% to 40% of the US population could get Swine flu this year, and up to 2 million Americans could be hospitalized as a result. › Continue reading

Tags: H1N1, Hypochondria / Health Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Relenza, Swine Flu, Tamiflu