What the Swine Flu PSA's Didn't Tell You
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 14:35
in Health & Medicine
Take a look at another hilarious, annotated episode from our Science of YouTube series! You may have seen some of these cheesy, scaremongering PSA’s, which were on every TV in the nation in 1976. US health officials meant well -- after an H1N1 outbreak at an Army Base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, they were worried about a pandemic potentially as dangerous as the 1918 flu outbreak -- but in hindsight, they really jumped the gun. Given today's news that the WHO has declared H1N1 a global pandemic, perhaps it's time these ads hit the airwaves again... read more