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    This document discusses the risks of reporting on health issues and provides guidelines for responsible risk reporting. It summarizes a report about a tick-borne parasitic infection called babesiosis spreading through blood transfusions. The document advocates avoiding alarmist language and putting risks in broader context. It also stresses the importance of understanding the strength of evidence, comparing risks, asking difficult questions, and discussing both risks and benefits to provide balanced information to the public.

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    RISK REPORTING

    BY: Anna Mae Y. Lamentillo


    September 20, 2011
    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    A parasitic infection normally transmitted by deer ticks has made its way into the U.S. blood supply, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. The infection is called babesiosis and its increasingly spreading through blood transfusions.

    - SORA SONG
    Taken from A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply
    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    IS THIS RISK REPORTING?

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    BUT IS IT ENOUGH?

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    MEDIA IS NOT JUST AN ALARM.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    MEDIA IS NOT JUST PART OF

    THE PROBLEM.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    MEDIA IS PART OF THE SOLUTION.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    According to CHRISTINE RUSSEL:

    CASE BY CASE ALARMS EASY HYPES

    CONSISTENT, BALANCED APPROACH

    PUT THE HAZARD DU JOUR IN BROADER PERSPECTIVE


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    LETs TALK ABOUT STATUS QUO.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    According to

    VICTOR COHN,

    JOURNALISTS (and their editors) gravitate towards stories at either extreme, emphasizing either no hope or new hope

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    60s - 70s
    HORMONES as a everlasting youth & a cure for hot ashes

    WONDER DRUG.

    cancers and uterus of the breast

    reports of possible links to

    Hormone Replacement Therapy

    HRT
    Estrogen

    2002

    ndings of

    LONG-TERM risks of HRT

    uterine cancer risk

    normalizes
    protection

    adding another hormone

    HEART DISEASE BREAST CANCER STROKE


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    sales soared

    $1B

    against bone loss and heart disease

    WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ?

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    Todays NEW HOPE, often becomes tomorrows NO HOPE.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    AVOID

    BREAKTHROUGH
    or

    WORDS like

    CURE

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    People should not be be afraid of transfusions.


    - Dr. Barbara Herwaldt
    Lead Author of the Report

    Taken from A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    RULE #1

    UNDERSTAND HOW STRONG THE STUDY IS.



    reputations of the scientists degree of uncertainty institution or corporation behind it

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    RULE #2

    DONT FORGET THE CONTEXT.



    Compare NEW RISKS with older known risks? Provide information NOT JUDGMENT. Compare SIMILAR RISKS.

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    The rst case of babesiosis transmitted through transfusion occurred in 1979, according to the CDC. Since then, another 161 cases have been documented -- 77% of them in the last decade.

    - Dr. Barbara Herwaldt


    Lead Author of the Report

    Taken from A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    RULE #3

    ASK THE TOUGHER QUESTIONS



    theres always a disadvantage seek clear answers talk about the risks what can be done in the face of uncertainty

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    To prevent becoming infected with babesiosis - and keeping it out of the blood supply to begin with - people should avoid tick bites by wearing protective clothing and using insect repellant.

    - SORA SONG

    Taken from A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    RULE #4

    UNDERSTAND THE RISKS



    Is it absolute or relative? What exactly does it mean? Is the effect substantial or important? Is the risk voluntary or involuntary? What is the level of Individual vs. Societal Risk? Who is most likely to be exposed to a given risk? What can be done about a given risk, if anything, and by whom?

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    The disease is treatable with antibiotics, but it can become severe or even deadly in certain vulnerable populations, including the elderly, those with weakened immune systems.

    - SORA SONG

    Taken from A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply


    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    RULE #5

    UNDERSTAND THE ADVANTAGES

    What are the potential benets and to whom

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    CONFLICT

    COMPETITION THE 24 HOURS NEWS CYCLE

    CONTROVERSY SPACE

    RATINGS
    FEEDBACK
    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    TIME Subscriptions

    SHARES, LIKES

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