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SARS didn't do the markets a lot of good - what about Swine Flu Epidemic

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  • beingjdc
    beingjdc Posts: 1,680 Forumite
    Euch, I'm paranoid about this sort of thing - one day there will be a big outbreak of something that will kill tens of millions. Hopefully this isn't it - wasn't the 1918 Spanish flu a pig mutation as well?

    On the original point, I do own 49 shares of GlaxoSmithkline, so we'll see if anything really happens, I doubt stuff like Tamiflu and Relenza are really big enough products that they'll affect drug companies in any real way overall.
    Hurrah, now I have more thankings than postings, cheers everyone!
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    Whilst we're on the subject...

    Question: What's black, white and red and can't turn around in a lift?

    Answer: A nun with a javelin impaled through her neck.

    (not expecting many thanks for that, but it's one of my favourite jokes)
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    beingjdc wrote: »
    one day there will be a big outbreak of something that will kill tens of millions.

    I have my money on Westlife being that something.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    Whilst we're on the subject...

    Question: What's black, white and red and can't turn around in a lift?

    Answer: A nun with a javelin impaled through her neck.

    (not expecting many thanks for that, but it's one of my favourite jokes)


    Mine favourite is (truth):

    Question: What's black, white and red and finds it difficult to go through revolving doors?

    Answer: A nun with a spear through her head.


    My other favourite involves dead babies & a pitchfolk but we wont go there. :A
    Not Again
  • ShelfStacker_3
    ShelfStacker_3 Posts: 2,180 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    I have my money on Westlife being that something.

    Only if mass suicide counts.
  • dylansmum
    dylansmum Posts: 234 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    I have my money on Westlife being that something.

    We might get them for crimes against aurality before they get us.
  • julieq
    julieq Posts: 2,603 Forumite
    Who'd have thought it'd be the piggies though? All that time we were watching the birdies, they were planning this... Makes you wonder who you can trust really.

    Anyone wanting revenge could do worse than to visit here
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,231 Forumite
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    Don't forget., all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
    I think....
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    I can't tell jokes or laugh at nuns. I am still traumatised at being taught by them. I can still feel the WHACK on the back of the head..
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,231 Forumite
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8019912.stm

    I wonder how the pharmaceuticals are getting on?
    I think....
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