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H1N1 Products

You can get a swine flu vaccination at Walgreens. To advertise that fact, they put stickers on other products, but do they say “vaccine”? No, the stickers just say “H1N1 Available Here”, which won’t make much sense once you get these products home. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Automatic Holy Water Dispenser

Just because it’s holy water, it doesn’t mean that it’s also sterile water! To guard against swine flu, Italian inventor Luciano Marabrese invented the automatic holy water dispenser: The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser in public washrooms — a churchgoer waves his or her [...]

I Heart Robots

I Heart Robots I Heart Math Chemists Do It Periodically on a Table Swine Flu: Bacon’s Revenge My Dream is to Cut All Ties with Civilization but Still be on the Internet Great Vocab Didn’t Save the Thesaurus Extinction Binary Solo Just added to Neatoama Shop’s Christmas Special, where each purchase gets you a free Mystery Bonus. It’s not too late to [...]

Santas Demand Flu Shots

The Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas is asking that costumed Santas be put on the priority list for swine flu vaccinations this year. “I have heard across the country numerous Santas who have actually had the swine flu, but I have not heard reports back of any of our Santas being able to get the [...]

Possible laboratory origin of swine flu

A newly released peer-reviewed scientific paper has put forward the theory that the swine flu outbreak may have originated in a lab that stores vi…

Swine Flu: Fear vs. Knowledge

Infographic: Raj Kamal Raj Kamal of MintLife has a pretty nifty infographic about swine flu. Eye candy aside, I’m not going to take it completely at face value. For one, the graph lists graphjam.com (LOL!) and squidoo.com as source. This particular portion show above, however, looks logical enough to me Link

What Does it Matter if I’m Allergic to Eggs? (A Flu Shot FAQ)

Since we’re right in the middle of flu shot season, here are the answers to a few questions you might be mulling over on your way to get your injection of this year’s vaccine cocktail. How long have flu shots been around? The flu has been making us sick since at least 1580, when a major [...]