Friday May 1st, 2009. Posted by Alex:

Talking of swine 'flu…

There were about 3000 deaths, mostly children, yesterday in Africa!

Oh, sorry, I forgot, they died of malaria. That’s not news, is it?

(Thanks to Dr Crippen of the Guardian for this point.)

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