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Subject: Animal Diseases

  • You Sunk My Battleship!?

    July 18, 2007
  • Swine Flu, Shwine Flu: Curiously Written Missive From Mexican Tourism Board Urges Visitors to Come Anyway

    Public Enemy No. 1...Employing language worthy of a fast-talking abogado, a release fired off Wednesday by the Mexican Tourism Board and Ministry of Tourism and sent to members of the American media by Mexican consulates notes that "No tourists currently in Mexico have been infected by the H1N1 Influenza Virus." That may be, but this is the kind of language game that results in folks inadvertently purchasing 12 cases of scotch when they sign their names to a cell phone contract. Perhaps no touri

    April 30, 2009
  • San Francisco Walgreens Stores Report Panicky City Residents Have Bought Up Supply of Air Filtration Masks

    It may help you win the Cobra Commander look-alike contest, but will it stave off Swine Flu?In San Francisco, Walgreens may be even more ubiquitous than sourdough bread. And yet, thanks to Swine Flu-related purchasing binges, you'd be hard-pressed to find any air filtration masks in the drugstores' aisles. "Everyone wants them -- the whole free world practically," said one Walgreen's employee -- who reported that frustrated customers have resorted to buying bandanas and cloths and leave the stor

    April 30, 2009