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We're being told many things about so-called swine flu -- what it is, how it's progressing, where it all could lead. Is knowledge about infectious diseases like H1N1 influenza objective; is it simply collected and passed along to us? Charles Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs and Ignacio Chapela discuss the role politics and ideology play in how health and medical knowledge is packaged and presented.