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    Kasabian Out of Quarantine After Swine Flu Scare

    • Posted on Aug 13th 2009 11:00AM by Dan Reilly
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    The term "lead vocalist syndrome" was invented to describe how singers often have a large ego, which almost always affects their band negatively. The members of Kasabian could sort of relate after having their lives disrupted because of an issue that started with their frontman. Only in this instance, the disease was thought to be swine flu, not delusions of grandeur.

    According to UK paper the Sun, the Leicester lads were quarantined in a Sydney, Australia hotel after singer Tom Meighan was diagnosed with H1N1 virus. Apparently, it was thought he picked it up somewhere after a gig in Japan and was taken to a hospital after the symptoms flared up. The rest of the band then fell ill and were ordered to stay in their rooms until they're healthy.

    "We're all sick as dogs, man. It's pretty terrible," guitarist Sergio Pizzorno told the Sun. It's a bit of a virus that we picked up in Japan. It's so tough. I am confined to my hotel room and I look out and see the Opera House and the harbour and so want to be out there in it all ... The doctor says it will take a couple of days and we need to stay in our rooms and chill."

    Luckily, the band, which is currently touring behinds its third album 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum,' has been given "the all clear" from doctors, according to their publicist. As it turns out, they were sick but not with the deadly, headline-hogging virus. Although Kasabian was forced to cancel its Australian gigs, they should be fine to play two concerts in Malaysia Saturday and Sunday.
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    Swine Fluat 8-13-2009

    The date in which high risk groups will be vaccinated against swine flu is coming ever closer.

    In the biggest vaccination in over 40 years will you have a swine flu vaccine if offered?

    vote here
    Swine Flu Vaccine

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    jeaniat 8-13-2009

    yes I will get the Swine Flu Shot as I have a weak immune system....

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    Leeat 8-13-2009

    Not a chance. This is about equal to the 1976 influenza, overeaction kills and maims people with unsafe vaccines.There are still thousands of americans suffering from the affects caused by the 76 vaccines.

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    annat 8-13-2009

    Yes, I will.

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    Jakeat 8-13-2009

    Yes, I too will have to get the flu and swine flu vac's this year. There are two swine flu shots along with the standard (what is standard eh?) flu shot. Great to be in a high risk group huh?

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    Jat 8-13-2009

    No way!! This is a Live virus vaccine containing thimerisol. I'll take my chances.

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    crazeblndat 8-13-2009

    h*ll no! God only knows what they put in those things.

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    Donnaat 8-14-2009

    HECK NO! I'm not buying into the fear they are trying to instill in us. I'll take my chances, too.

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    Pissedat 8-13-2009

    Another band nobody's ever heard of!!! If I get swine flu will they talk about it here and maybe help me get a job since hussein "ears" owe bamma caused me to lose the one I had????

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    Lauraat 8-13-2009

    i totally agree with you! i voted mccain, i wish the rest of the U.S. was smarter than they are bc we wouldnt be in the radical idiotism we are in now, NoBAMA!~

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    Jillianat 8-13-2009

    Kasabian are HUGE in the UK and their songs are used for a lot of American commercials as well!

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    maxineat 8-14-2009

    yes, and i suppose you slept through the last 8 years of GWB.....

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    salomeat 8-13-2009

    nope,no vaccineS here--this swine flU is 100% hype fear and fright--more than 36,000 die annually /USA and even they're admitting MILD SYMPTOMS and no problems unless one has other medical conditions which goes right along with ANY FLU SEASON--so- ! no different from the OTHER VARIETIES of influenza beyond being MILDER.
    but will ""they"" admit where this mutateD mess came from ?
    not from nature either.

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    Marlene Harveyat 8-13-2009

    PLEASE! Google: swine flu vaccine '76 and learn the facts before you write false information. In '76 millions were vaccinated, 500 developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, press reports & CDC disagree on the number of deaths, it is reported to be three but some claim 25. If the epidemic HAD occurred, thousands would have died (36,000 die each year from seasonal flu). Since it didn't, people only remember the GBS. This syndrome is an auto-immune response, 50% of cases follow infections, 1% follow vaccinations, the rest have no known cause. 95% recover and with today's treatment for it, the odds of recovery may be even better. H1N1 has already infected at least a million Americans. There will no doubt be many more cases & deaths in the fall, possibly as many, or more, than with seasonal flu. If you can, get the vaccination.

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    tradeshowjoeat 8-13-2009

    "swine" flu... a way for the global elitists to scare us into allowing them to inject us with god knows what. Most assuradly some of the chemicals in the "vaccine" will help to reduce the population, or at the very least serve to "dumb us down" so we are good, placid little sheep, unconcerned with what the "important" people are doing in the world. Resist the machine. It is real, the war is on. You are the enemy.

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    crazeblndat 8-13-2009

    Here here!!! Well said.

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    Lilaat 8-14-2009

    People , THERE IS NO "vaccine".
    Any self respecting scientist will tell you it takes years to develop a vaccine. And they can't do it until the new strain comes into the population, which will be a totally "new" one by the time fall gets here because they mutate, so this so called "vaccine" will be obsolete. And it's tainted because they,re taking it from the old strains of the 70's as Lee was saying, that's all they have. So you will be doing more harm than good.
    But never fear . If you strengthen your immune system w/ antioxidants and powerfull and safe herbs, you'll be alright.
    You can't strenghthen your immunity w/ shots! Only w/ supplements and nutrition & rest.
    Go to Natural News .com and search for "Swine Flu Advanced Preparedness" It tells you everything you need to do NOW! Before the rush. Go now!

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    matt sat 8-13-2009

    Its LSD Lead Singer Disease

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    Gwenat 8-13-2009

    There is no way that I'll subject myself to the vaccine! I read about what those who survived the 1918 Spanish Influenza that killed millions and they took natural anti-virals. THAT is the secret! Olive Leaf, Astragalus, and Milk Thistle are the top three. Inexpensive, readily available and they WORK...I haven't been sick with ANY cold/flu in YEARS because I take them daily throughout the winter flu season. So, read about that flu and do what they did to escape it!

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    poogalooat 8-16-2009

    maybe,, maybe not,,,,offered or ordered???? should i trust it?? lets pray it doesnt get that bad.

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