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The Hantavirus Panic Machine: When Rare Diseases Become Media Theater

The Hantavirus Panic Machine: When Rare Diseases Become Media Theater

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If there is a lesson from the current hantavirus hype, it is not simply that the media exaggerates risk. It is that societies must relearn proportional thinking. Public health should inform, not terrify. Journalists should contextualize, not sensationalize.

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