Scientists have put down the rapid spread of Swine Flu to the millions of people watching an infected YouTube clip of Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle. The announcement was made in the British Medical Journal after days of intensive analysis of the new strain of influenza and the behaviour patterns of those who had caught it.
Posted: May 14th, 2013
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Pharmaceutical companies welcomed a decision by UK authorities to spend millions of pounds on medication to counter an imminent threat of ‘World Cup Fever’.
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The World Health Organisation has called together the planet’s leading medical scientists for a crisis conference, after admitting that they had yet to agree upon this year’s global health scare.
‘We may have a disaster on our hands.’ confessed Dr Paul Nunn of the WHO, writing in The Lancet. ‘The world could be without a major epidemic to fret about next winter. That would be unthinkable, leaving most of us with no media interviews, lucrative consultancies or entertainment from drug companies. We simply can‘t let that happen and we must protect ourselves, and, er, the population as a whole from the dire consequences.’
Posted: May 21st, 2010
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