In today’s fast moving world of designer viruses, “Pig Infects Man” is no longer the headline grabber it once was. “Man Infects Pig!” ? Now THAT’S news! And it’s exactly whats happened in the bacon-reliant nation of Canada. After a worker returned from a Mexican sojourn to the Alberta farm, he managed to infect up to 200 hundred unfortunate porkers.
The herd of pigs tested positive for the H1N1 virus after the worker returned from Mexico with the disease. The herd has been quarantined and the virus does not seem to have spread.
This has apparently led to an upscaling of calls for a ban on international pork trade. By idiots. It’s sneezing that spreads it not bacon you idiots! Anyway, we’ll continue to cast these pearls of newsworthyness before you loyal readers.
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With all the wheezing, sneezing, coughing and expiring victims of the piggyness soon to be upon us (including the moron I saw in a Chiswick pub wearing a mask the other night), there’s going to be plenty of germs around, so it makes sense to utilise them to make yourself fabulous right?
Yep, praise be to Epi-Skin, who are at least the most original of the pandemic profiteers, with their home grown viral jewelery-seen at the petri stage above.
If you’ve ever fancied having a deadly virus multiplying across your chest but don’t like visiting SoHo, then this could be for you!
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Although we try desperately to stay away from actual, relevant news here at ES, there’s no doubting that our general love of pork, death and google apps makes the looming swine flu pandemic completely irresistable, and this latest development absolutely perfect – that’s right, you can now track those poor dying Mexicans in real time, courtesy of the ever-lovin Google Maps.
This latest mashup comes from the misery-guts over at lifehacker, And while the we are generally a portal of doom, ES is taking the view that “Hey-if everyone is dead, we can finally move into the Tower of London!”
Worry yourself stupid here.
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