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I was away from my pc yesterday, and thanks to the O2 network crash couldn't post from my phone, so forgive the delay in mentioning this, but...
With a wife who is 33 weeks pregnant, I am naturally looking at all the advice regarding swine flu. I'll leave commenting on the sheer incompetence of a government which has a health secretary, a public health minister, a chief medical adviser and a health department all saying different things, and the mind-numbing crassness of the NCT advising would-be parents to wait a year or so until swine flu has passed before getting pregnant.
Instead, I'll simply thank Sir Liam Donaldson for his advice, published on Monday, specifically directed at pregnant women:
They are advised to take the following steps to reduce their risk of infection and complications:
Gee, thanks. It would never have crossed my wife's mind to "avoid contact with someone who is known or suspected to have swine ‘flu". Nor would we ever have thought of contacting our GP if either of us suspected we had swine flu.
He's left out the fourth piece of advice: breath in and out to maintain life.
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