Wednesday Briefs: Special Flu Pandemic Simulation Edition

Here are some of the top stories making waves in Hungary this morning, and a few that aren't, but are still worth checking out. Speaking of checking out, we'll be checking out for the rest of the day, as we have some more work to do on our most pressing super-secret project. But in the meantime:

• Hungary is one of 27 countries participating in a flu pandemic "simulation" today and tomorrow. So if you see groups of people collapsing on the ground and barfing up blood, don't worry: It's only a test. [MTI]

• Instead of Zengő hill, Hungary's long-delayed NATO radar station will be put on Tubes-hegy, a hill near Pécs about the same height as Zengő. Let the battle begin! [népszabadság]

• Cardiologist András Nagy, head of the Hungarian National Heart Foundation, said that the 500-600 semi-automatic defibrillators currently installed in public places in Hungary needs to be increased by a factor of 10. One person dies in a public place in Hungary every hour due to sudden heart failure, half of whom could be saved by these machines, which can be used by civilians. [magyar hírlap]

• Sixty percent of Hungarians are "digitally analphabetic," meaning they don't know how to use a computer. It is unclear whether this means they also can't operate a semi-automatic defibrillator, or whether a radical increase in the number of non-analphabetic Hungarians would cause an increase or decrease in the number of deaths in public places in Hungary, because the kind of people who would be good at de-fibrillating their fellow Hungarians would be sitting at home staring at their computers. [piac&profit]

• A Hungarian au pair sourced via the Internet crashed a family's car in London, and turned out not to have had "a police check or character reference," striking fear into hearts of overprotective rich dickhead yuppies throughout Britain. Oddest of all, the au pair turns out to have been a dude. [UPI]

• Hungary has the highest teacher/student ratio among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the club of industrialized countries. This isn't necessarily good news, though, because the reason is that there are the same number of teachers as two decades ago, but fewer and fewer children. [hírszerző]

• The price of bread will probably be raised by 15-20% before the end of the year. [napi online]