I would also like to investigate this question for MERS, SARS, the 1968 Hong Kong flu, and (as far as it’s relevant) the 1918 Spanish flu.
I’d be very interested in analyses of those (esp. if you look at it from the limited perspective people had in the early stages of those outbreaks). I feel like I completely missed it at the time, but the more I hear about SARS-1 the more I feel like the alarm bells should have gone off like crazy (and that probably happened in Asia but the way I remember it, reporting on SARS in the West felt no different from reporting about bird flu or Swine flu – but probably I didn’t play close attention because I was really young).
I’d be very interested in analyses of those (esp. if you look at it from the limited perspective people had in the early stages of those outbreaks). I feel like I completely missed it at the time, but the more I hear about SARS-1 the more I feel like the alarm bells should have gone off like crazy (and that probably happened in Asia but the way I remember it, reporting on SARS in the West felt no different from reporting about bird flu or Swine flu – but probably I didn’t play close attention because I was really young).