After months and months reporting on the economic downturn there is finally a new kid on the block; swine flu. This week there hasn’t been much talk of unemployment figures and recession, but much, much has been said about sneezing pigs. So much, in fact, that the media has a whole country fooled.

Egypt has declared it will slaughter it’s 300,000 pigs in a measure to help prevent the swine flu. Egypt has had no reported cases of the disease, but the Egyptian health ministry has reportedly put all hospotals and quarentine centres on high alert as well. But the swine flu isn’t that dangerous, is it? The media likes a good story to exploit in order to create panic. And panic it is, across the globe. Panic created by the media is to blame for the execution of all the pigs in Egypt. Most people who gets the flu recovers, as long as they get medical treatment in time, and very few people in the UK has escaped being told the symptoms. The death rate slows in Mexico, as infected people now don’t think they have normal flu, but the piggy one, and seek medical help. I suppose we can thank the media for that. My point is that the world needed something else to talk about, and we got it. Next!