Age of anxiety.

Australian Doctor,  December, 2005  

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Jane McCredie

Four reasons why depression and anxiety are flourishing in the Noughties.

1. Bird Flu

Millions of chickens may have paid the ultimate price and governments around the world may be in a flap about it, but whether avian influenza will make the leap to human-to-human transmission remains the great unknown.

2. Terrorism

We may be more likely to die on the roads than in a terrorist attack but, with attacks on tourists in Bali and the cult of the suicide bomber extending from the ruins of war-ravaged Iraq ...

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