Monday, January 08, 2007

Flu jabs free for chicken handlers

The Government is planning to give seasonal flu jabs to workers who come into contact with poultry. Apparently this is precautionary measure in the event of the minuscule possibility that someone working with a chicken gets human flu and bird flu at the same time and become the zero day carrier of a flu variant which will kill us all.

If it ain't global warming that will get us, it's the bird flu! I particularly like the fact that the press release waits until the fourth paragraph to say, "seasonal flu vaccination does not protect against bird flu". The truth is seasonal flu vaccination doesn't necessarily protect against seasonal flu either of course, but Nanny knows best.

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