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Panicdemic
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Panic-demic is an adjective used to describe media events where a problem is made to appear larger than it is. Panic-demic may also be referred to as "panic-demic," though the official spelling has not been confirmed by any reference dictionary at the time this entry was published. An example of a panic-demic would be the "swine flu outbreak" of April, 2009 in which 100 cases of swine flu in the United States were shown to the American viewers as an outbreak of global proportion. The first documented case of a panicdemic was in 2006 during the "bird flu pandemic" The World Health Organization has classified this swine flu outbreak as a Level 5 event, which they classify as the last stage before a global pandemic. Panic=demics result in massive media coverage of an event that might otherwise have not been newsworthy, and generally cause unneccesary panic in normal citizens who do not evaluate all of the facts in a news story. Other examples of recent panic-demics would include the SARS virus. In the case of this event, 774 people worldwide died, which is less than 1/100 of 1% of the world population, which according to google at the time of this posting is 6,706,993,152 News Sunday 11 November 2007 A familiar foe, and a treatable one By: Cathy Nelson Price MRSA — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The new panic-demic? http://www.doxycycline.com/news_article.html?tx_ttnews=725&tx_ttnews69&cHash2bcb730564 Additional references http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/416098/we_face_a_century_of_viral_pandemics/ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-we-face-a-century-of-viral-pandemics-468827.html <references/> http://www.capitalcentury.com/1976.html <-- prime example of hyper panic-demic during Ford Administration --> 
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