Nature
Volume 459 Number 7245 pp299-472  21 May 2009
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/

Commentary
Pandemics: good hygiene is not enough
“The US government is doing well to communicate uncertainty over swine flu. It must also help the public to visualize what a bad pandemic might be like, says Peter M. Sandman.”

Essay
Pandemics: avoiding the mistakes of 1918
“As bodies piled up, the United States’ response to the ‘Spanish flu’ was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm. The authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M. Barry.”