Infected is the title of a cartoon strip dreamt up in 2011 by the European Commission. Its aim was twofold: firstly, to explain the concept of a pandemic, with the potential damage it can cause, to a broad public of adolescents. And secondly, to show that at international level, multilateralism can help to stamp out these increasingly common phenomena.
Its authors compare Infected to Contagion, a hit film made in the same year. Unlike Steven Soderbergh’s Hollywood blockbuster, the scale of...