>>>Local cases of the virus appear to be doubling each week and now are “in the thousands."
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>>>http://www.mysanantonio.com/health/Swine_flu_vaccine_not_expected_here_for_weeks.html
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>>Grady, you're 'kin' obsessed with this swine flu. What are you, trying to depress us all?
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>I already feel as depressed as a commandbutton.
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>Except that I think I'd rather take my chances with the flu than with the vaccine. I just eat a lot of raw onion the evening I feel like I may have some symptoms the next day, and the viruses go out to puke and don't come back. I can eat onions like apples.

Well at least that'll keep everyone outside your personal space, thus reducing your chances of contracting owt!!!

BTW in the Gerald Durrell book "The whispering grass"?, in which he's hunting wildlife in Argentina, for his Jersey zoo, he describes being out on the Pampas with the gauchos, and how they all eat raw garlic on bread for a meal. He allows that it sounds unbearable and very antisocial but explains how it's actually delicious once you get your head round the concept. And, of course, as they're all doing it they become mutually immune to the offensiveness thereof.

Now you'll probably tell me that back home they have that for breakfast (or worse still - a mouthwash)