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By: ELIZABETH WEILL-GREENBERG COMMENTS
 
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is, in part, because AIDS affected "marginal" groups in the beginning, Siegel said. Like avian flu, AIDS began to catch the "public imagination" when it turned into a "mysterious killer," he said.
"Birds are very mysterious," he said. "They’re scary looking things carrying a scary disease."
While public health and government officials may have learned from AIDS to react quickly to health crises, they’ve ignored the lessons of other diseases when governments cried wolf, like the panics around SARS, West Nile virus and mad cow, Siegel said.
"There’s a difference between a risk to many and a risk to few," he said.
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