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When it comes to swine flu, don't fall prey to pandemic panic

Marc Siegel, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, is the author of "Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic."

Gaining control of the emerging swine flu outbreak will depend upon combining a national and local public health response with calm cooperation on the part of all citizens. But this hasn't been happening.

When more than...

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