Geek News: Virus hysteria has spread out of control

Remember the good old days of medicine?

When you got sick, you went to see the medicine man. He’d crack an egg on your head or make you spit into a bowl, and he’d soon have a diagnosis — evil spirits. Of course, it was always evil spirits, the only question was which variety.

Anyway, you d give him a pig or a chicken; he’d say an incantation or blow smoke in your face. You’d get better. Or die. Whatever the outcome, that was that. Of course, it wasn’t evil spirits — the medicine man didn’t know what was wrong, but had…