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Kasabian Out of Quarantine After Swine Flu Scare

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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Diana

Dammit, if Kasabian die I will have no more British music to love.

August 21 2009 at 6:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Floxedead

Too right, Shells. I'm another victim of floxing. It's smashed my life completely and I do mean completely. Six days of a "harmless antibiotic" and I can't walk, drive, see properly, stand without falling over... sometimes can't even speak.
Nothing Shells writes is exaggerated - of course they want us to be sick, sicker, sickest - it contributes to the all-important Economic Growth.

August 16 2009 at 7:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DeadlyAntibioticsAwarenessMission

Not only Levaquin(Levofloxacin), but all the Fluoroquinolones.... Cipro, Avelox and many others that have already been removed from the market. Vigamox is a Fluoroquinolone eyedrop, currently the "antibiotic of choice" for cataract surgeries. DO NOT TAKE/USE. Also Fluoroquinolones within the VETERINARY Community, BAYTRIL is popular (not even approved for cats, may cause blindness) but it is still given. But there are about 5 others being given to our beloved furry companions. Most end in QUIN, FLOX or FLOXACIN. This particular class of "antibiotic" is a man-made TOXIC chemical compound that works like CHEMO. It destroys DNA, kills healthy cells, depletes the body and bones of vital minerals and nutrients, causes kidney as well as other vital organ damage, gets deep into the tissues, crosses the blood-brain barrier...and the Black-Box Warning is for tendon rupture alone!!
The general public is largely unaware.

~Shells~

Deadly*Antibiotic*Awareness*Mission

Please go to FQRESEARCH.ORG and check out LEVAQUIN on YouTube, hear the victims' stories. Protect yourself.

August 16 2009 at 4:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Rampant paranoia and mis-information about vaccine here. My suggestion: When vaccine becomes available wait until you see top government officials and their families getting it. Preferably on live TV and absolutely must include President, Prime Minister et.all. Then I would line up to get my shot fast. For most of the population (especially those born after 1960) there is absolutely zero resistance to this completely new strain.

August 14 2009 at 5:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ycav4424

To-Deadly Antibiotic Awarness, I have looked under levaquin side effects. There are hundreds of people who have gone through what you describe. Thanks

August 14 2009 at 5:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ycav4424

Who ever wrote about Deadly Antibiotic Awarness. There is no site at FQ Research.org. Ts the rest of what you described any more factual.

August 14 2009 at 4:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DeadlyAntibioticsAwarenessMission

FQRESEARCH.ORG

August 16 2009 at 3:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Resist

Educate yourselves on facts. Extremes lead to ignorance and fear. Knowledge is our best defense. Do not deny yourself this resource, as it will not last forever. Learn the truth, and continue to learn. You are only a victim if you allow yourself to be through arrogance and ignorance. It's time to put aside ambitions of laziness and apathy, strive for something more. Educate yourself, no one will do it for you.

Death to tyrants.

August 14 2009 at 4:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tfire

No, I will not take the vaccine.

August 14 2009 at 2:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nevermind

to "DeadlyAntibioticsAwarenessMission"--
just wow. im gonna look into that now. when i was 16 i had a severe bladder infection and the doctors gave me a "new" drug called maxaquin. now days no doc has heard of it cuz it was pulled. but at the time i took 2 doses of it then became violently ill and wound up in the hospital fort a week. spent my 17th birthday in the hospital. they ran tests. could find no reason other than i was "allergic" or something. when i got out i remained ill with digestive problems. it is still severe today over 15 years later. it never went away. a couple years ago i saw a nurse practitioner and she said the drug was like chemo. it killed everything good in my body with the bvad and damaged my body. im guessing its too late to sue tho. been over 15 years now. but this is terrible. i want the lid blown right off the corrupted peoples operations. i want doctors to actually try and heal , not withold cures and not purposefully make us ill with so called medicine.

August 14 2009 at 1:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DeadlyAntibioticsAwarenessMission

To nevermind.... you did indeed take a Fluoroquinolone called Lomefloxacin, and what you are describing is typical reaction. Please feel free to join our yahoo discussion group FQToxicity at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/fqtoxicity/
and take a look at FQRESEARCH.ORG
As far as lawsuits, lawyers are now taking LEVAQUIN tendon ruptures/possible tendon damage...since the FDA had to be SUED to incl the Black-Box Warning. If you have ques about possible lawsuit, Dave Fuller owner of the site and organization may be able to offer some advice. At least now you KNOW the TRUTH... there is a huge cover-up with these drugs. Reading your post nearly brought tears to my eyes (it took me a year to find the cause of my "mysterious symptoms"... the doctors LIE) Good luck to you.

August 16 2009 at 3:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nevermind

what is so dangerous about vaccines? i was only just born in 1976 so i know nothing of the 1976 vaccine disaster you are referring to.

August 14 2009 at 1:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply