For most youngsters, the fear of disease is not a sufficient motivation.
Or in 2005, when we were suddenly afraid to eat a hamburger for fear of Mad Cow disease?
Tourism experts are confident that travel will recover faster from the tsunami than from SARS. Fear of an unknown disease is far tougher to manage than a rare natural disaster, however horrific.
In 1986, Mr. Cooper wrote a policy memo for the Reagan administration that argued a law prohibiting discrimination based on handicap didn't apply to employers who wanted to fire employees with AIDS, if the basis for the decision was fear of catching the disease.
Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats, that is) to be either indifferent to how such protection reduces choice and raises prices, or to support protectionism because they fear contaminated and disease-bearing foreign products, and the vulnerability of Japan to blockages of agricultural product imports.
"It's important for people to understand that it does not help our research or our mission of the CSTE to take their own lives because they fear they have this disease, " said Stern.
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They fear that by blurring the boundary between health and disease, DSM-V loses sight of a doctor's first duty: to do no harm.
The aims of the initiative include challenging public attitudes to cancer, and reducing the unecessary fear surrounding the disease.
Though most of us feel dis-eased around disease, colloquial English proffers a sparse vocabulary for the expression of embarrassment, fear, anxiety, grief or sorrow.
At present, the disease is confined to Asia, but experts fear that it is only a matter of time before it reaches Latin America and the Caribbean.
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