Swine Flu Heads Up West

Now that swine flu is officially a pandemic, the news that two employees of Top Shop on Oxford Street have tested positive brings the total number of London cases to 176 which is still less than the 3415 cases of tuberculosis recorded in London last year. Media hysteria about swine flu reached epidemic proportions before MP expenses provided a new outlet for public outrage, though you probably still shouldn't put soft toys from doctors' surgeries in your mouth without liberal applications of Dettol.

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