The public panic about swine flu is completely out of proportion to the threat involved.

In part, agency leaders become overwhelmed by fear of causing public panic.

They want to create public panic by taking further steps of horror every day.

The police decided to keep details of the dismemberment from the public to avoid panic.

Doctors must not allow public panic to alter correct clinical judgment.

These attacks attracted much attention from the media and intensified public panic in the colony.

But the obvious public panic set the stage for a series of bank failures that continued until 1933.

We must avoid public panic at all costs!

He said that as the Year 2000 approached, the risk of public panic from exaggerated alarms about the computer glitch would grow.

Still more ironic, if harder to measure, are the adverse consequences of public panics.