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April 29, 2009
A pandemic threatens. Everybody is wearing masks. The virus (Influenza A (H1N1) is present in Australia but we do not know yet how severe it will be. Still anxiety and fear skyrockets as as the death toll continues to rise.
Leunig
The WHO has said that it was "very concerned" about the spread of the virus after it raised the pandemic level to phase four, which recognises that there is now sustained transmission of the infection from human to human. It is two phases short of a pandemic.
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According to Hollywood for years, scientists have been warning us that it's only a matter of time before a vaccine-resistant, untreatable virus wills itself into existence and kills -- or transforms into zombies -- almost everyone on the planet except one or ten or a hundred hardy souls.
Those survivors will be forced to retreat to remote, boarded-up shacks, where they'll have to ponder the biggest moral quandaries of mankind: For example, if your mom or lover turns into a zombie, how do you kill her?