The missing fear

The conservative daily Lidové Noviny reacts ambivalently to the spreading swine flu virus: "The world was missing something recently. Since the weekend we know what that something was: for some time we hadn't had an opportunity to panic about a new disease of civilisation. While the disease is spreading worldwide on live TV the experts can demonstrate how indispensable they are. So now we have swine flu. So far it has only caused deaths in Mexico but cases of infection have also come to light in the US and Canada. It's quite possible that swine flu will make an unwelcome appearance in Europe too. But perhaps it will die out and we can relegate it to the long catalogue of scary news reports about meat … which leads to nothing but the death of millions of animals."

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