To understand the future, you must examine the past. In the case of Greece, four years ago will do – when malaria broke out in the Peloponnese. No one had seen a malaria outbreak for 40 years. Every doctor thought it was a common virus. But then it was discovered that – due to economic pressures – the Greek authorities had not sprayed the mosquito fields as early as they usually did. The story, alas, gets worse.