Med Anthropol. 2009 Jul;28(3):199-206. doi: 10.1080/01459740903070451.
Beginning in April 2009, global attention began focusing on the emergence in Mexico of a potentially highly lethal new influenza strain of porcine origin that has successfully jumped species barriers and is now being transmitted around the world. Reported on extensively by the mass media, commented on by public health and government officials across the globe, and focused on with nervous attention by the general public, the so-called swine flu pandemic raises important questions, addressed here, concerning the capacity of medical anthropology to respond usefully to such disease outbreaks and their health and social consequences.
自 2009 年 4 月起，全球的注意力开始集中到一种可能具有高度致命性的新型猪源流感病毒在墨西哥的出现，这种病毒成功跨越物种界限并在世界范围内传播。大众媒体对此进行了广泛报道，全球公共卫生和政府官员对此发表了评论，普通公众也对此高度关注，所谓的“猪流感”大流行提出了一些重要问题，本文将探讨医学人类学在应对此类疾病爆发及其健康和社会后果方面的有效反应能力。
