As swine flu is once again on the increase, I thought you might enjoy this satirical poem that my Mistress wrote:<\/p>\n
Swine Flu<\/strong><\/p>\n In a village in Central America sneezed<\/p>\n a piglet that proved to be, sadly, diseased.<\/p>\n Forgetting his trotter in front of his nose,<\/p>\n around him a great cloud of flu virus rose.<\/p>\n The swine flu from pigs soon mutated to form,<\/p>\n an illness for humans that caused such a storm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Men sneezing and coughing on all those around<\/p>\n spreading quite liberally the germs, which abound<\/p>\n in tissues and hankies and on children\u2019s arms,<\/p>\n removing what\u2019s left of their innocent charms.<\/p>\n Soon asking themselves if it\u2019s safe to eat pork,<\/p>\n some people spread myths through their terrible talk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A short break in Mexico proved just the start,<\/p>\n with homeward bound travellers playing their part,<\/p>\n to spread the disease all the way round the earth,<\/p>\n making Government messages of little worth.<\/p>\n \u2018Catch it and bin it and kill it,\u2019 they retort,<\/p>\n but best not to catch it at all, I\u2019d have thought.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Foreign Office advice, \u2018Don\u2019t travel abroad\u2019,<\/p>\n while Governments build up their Tamiflu hoard.<\/p>\n World Health first declaring a category five.<\/p>\n Not quite a pandemic, most people alive.<\/p>\n This soon rose to six, which I think that you\u2019ll find<\/p>\n More potent than \u2018man-flu\u2019, that\u2019s all in the mind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sneezing in public has become a taboo.<\/p>\n No longer do neighbours reply with \u2018Bless you,\u2019<\/p>\n instead they start rapidly moving away,<\/p>\n that you\u2019re not infected, is now what they pray.<\/p>\n It\u2019s better to hold the hay fever in,<\/p>\n as letting it out is now seen as a sin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s no vaccination available yet,<\/p>\n researchers are working long hours you can bet.<\/p>\n The genetic code that they\u2019re trying to crack<\/p>\n could still be mutating and fast changing tack.<\/p>\n They\u2019re injecting virus deep into an egg, <\/p>\n Though eggs are involved please don\u2019t be concerned, For Avian flu is quite different you see,<\/p>\n it doesn\u2019t yet travel between you and me.<\/p>\n As soon as it does we\u2019ll be forced to decide, If these flu strains combine, then soon we\u2019ll be led,<\/p>\n to think pink flying piglets aren\u2019t all in the head.<\/p>\n This small piglet\u2019s tale has a moral for you,<\/p>\n it\u2019s definitely safer to not catch the flu.<\/p>\n If sneezing please cover your mouth and your nose, \u00a9 Rosemary J Kind 2009.<\/p>\n (do not copy without the writer\u2019s express permission)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nto make up safe vaccine for which we all beg.<\/p>\n
\nit won\u2019t produce bird flu, that much we have learned.<\/p>\n
\nwhich vaccine to make to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n
\nand try not to blow mucus out onto your clothes.<\/p>\n