lullaby

I've started lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke, etc. It involves an ancient African folk song that was read to babies during famines, to take them away gently when the tribes had gotten too populous. If you read the song to anyone, they die during the night. A reporter discovers the song as he investigates crib death. His thoughts:

"The culling song would be a plague unique to the Information Age. Imagine a world where people shun the television, the radio, movies, the Internet, magazines and newspapers. People have to wear earplugs the way they wear condoms and rubber gloves. In the past, nobody worried too much about sex with strangers. Or before that, bites from fleas. Or untreated drinking water. Mosquitoes. Asbestos.
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears."

Thank you, Chuck, for a new terror I had never even thought about before. Would the Amish be safe?