The Nation (Nairobi)
1 Juillet 2009
Hotel and tourism players have been put on high alert following the reported case of swine flu in Kenya.
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What crisis are we talking about here? This is a mild form of flu, no worse than the ordinary influenza that afflicts millions every year. Yes, it's potentially fatal. Flu does kill, but only it seems people who are already predisposed to be very susceptible. This kind of panic reporting should have been consigned to the past. There are tourists even now who are thinking should we go? The same people who have just spent a small fortune on malarone tablets to avoid contracting malaria, a genuinely dangerous and indiscriminate disease.
Yet another shot in the foot by the Kenya media. Kenyans deserves much better.
What crisis are we talking about here? This is a mild form of flu, no worse than the ordinary influenza that afflicts millions every year. Yes, it's potentially fatal. Flu does kill, but only it seems people who are already predisposed to be very susceptible. This kind of panic reporting should have been consigned to the past. There are tourists even now who are thinking should we go? The same people who have just spent a small fortune on malarone tablets to avoid contracting malaria, a genuinely dangerous and indiscriminate disease.
Yet another shot in the foot by the Kenya media. Kenyans deserves much better.