Lighting online press releases epidemics of influenza prevent their rapid spread. To this conclusion came a group of canadian and Chinese scientists, which has studied the correlation between number of news reports of epidemics and information on hospitalized cases of influenza H1N1, according to the resource N+1. Thus the researchers confirmed the beneficial effect of "hysteria" in the media on the slowdown of epidemics.

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Lighting online press releases epidemics of influenza prevent their rapid spread. To this conclusion came a group of canadian and Chinese scientists, which has studied the correlation between number of news reports of epidemics and information on hospitalized cases of influenza H1N1, according to the resource N+1. Thus the researchers confirmed the beneficial effect of "hysteria" in the media on the slowdown of epidemics.

Data were collected in the Chinese province of Shaanxi with a population of 36 million people. Within three months, researchers collected data on the number and duration of news about epidemics, as well as information on hospitalized patients. A large number of news led to the decrease of cases with a delay of three to four days. The influence of the more popular sites, which is logical, it was noticeable. The hospitalizations were halved, when in the course of 10 days increased duration of messages about the epidemic.

Scientists have linked this pattern with the influence of media on people's behavior, narrow-minded dispel the myth that "hysteria" in the media about epidemics only increases the number of cases.

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