A new Norovirus vaccine – just don’t tell non-smokers how it is made …

by | Feb 20, 2012 | Health, Laugh? I pissed myself, Please fuck off., Politics, Righteous Wankers, Wasp likes these

Via The Torygraph, one that I am sure Leg-iron would have a lot of fun with (emphasis mine) :

The vaccine uses dummy virus cells grown in tobacco plants to immunise the body against the winter vomiting bug.

Rather than being injected, it is administered up the nose in the form of a powder and could offer protection from the virus for between six months and two years.

Norovirus is a highly contagious bug which is most potent at this time of year, causing diarrhoea, vomiting and flu-like symptoms which last for two to three days.

Because it is so easily transmissible from person to person, the virus is especially rife in hospitals and care homes as well as other crowded settings like schools, army barracks and cruise ships.

Although not normally dangerous, the condition can be deadly to very young and elderly patients.

Cue anti-smoker hysteria over the possibility of nose cancer and a whole host of other stupidity because if it comes from a tobacco plant is just has to be dangerous right?

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