Swine Flu

Matt Good Takes Tamiflu

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 12, 2009 4:28 pm
Matt Good says he's been taking Tamiflu to prevent contracting the H1N1, or swine flu, virus. In a post on his website written last Saturday (Nov. 7), Good revealed he'd been taking the antiviral drug as a precaution. Good suffers from Sarcoidosis, a condition that causes inflammation usually in the lungs and lymph nodes. He says that means...
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Swine Flu Infects Pet Shop Boys Ukraine Shows

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) November 9, 2009 12:12 pm
Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe might be asking themselves today what they did to deserve this. The band were slated to play in the Ukraine later this month but the Ukrainian government has cancelled the shows because of H1N1, a.k.a. swine flu. "The Ukrainian government has taken measures to combat the spread of swine flu and...
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Billy Corgan Vs. Swine Flu Vaccine

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 29, 2009 10:17 am
Billy Corgan recently fought against The Cure's Robert Smith, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy and Amanda Palmer in a doll wrestling battle and now he's fighting something else: the new swine flu vaccine. Corgan shared his feelings about the H1N1 vaccine in a post on his Everything From Here To There spiritual website on Tuesday (Oct. 27). He said...
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Marilyn Manson Doesn't Have Swine Flu, Promoters Say

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 28, 2009 12:18 pm
Marilyn Manson might have blogged about having swine flu last week, but the promoters of his current tour insist the rocker does not have the virus. The Gillett Entertainment Group and Live Nation sent a press release out to media outlets on Friday, in which they said Manson had not contracted swine flu and all his current dates would go ahead as...
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Final Fantasy Could Have Swine Flu, Cancels Shows

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 25, 2009 4:22 pm
Final Fantasy has cancelled his appearance at Victoria's Rifflandia Music Festival set to take place on Friday and his show set for Saturday in Vancouver because he has the flu, according to CBC Radio 3. The man born Owen Pallett has been tweeting all day about his condition. He's being tested for swine flu, but the results won't be in for a...
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Marilyn Manson Has Swine Flu

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 22, 2009 4:08 pm
A lot of people have probably called Marilyn Manson a pig before, and now he has a disease that has spread from pigs to humans. Yes, Manson has swine flu. "So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU," Manson wrote on his MySpace blog on Monday. Of course, Manson couldn't resist getting a shot in at his...
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Kasabian Sidelined By Swine Flu

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 13, 2009 12:47 pm
Jet's Nic Cester might not have swine flu, but everyone in Kasabian does. Frontman Tom Meighan was recently hospitalized in Australia after flying there from Japan, and he and the band are being quarantined in their hotel rooms in Sydney. That's lead to Kasabian cancelling their Australian shows. "We're all sick as dogs, man,"...
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White Cowbell: Cure For Swine Flu

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 26, 2009 2:39 pm
White Cowbell Oklahoma's stage shows are booze-fueled punch-ups, replete with strippers, costumed villains, giant penises and cosmic ejaculate. But behind all the smoke and mirrors, the Toronto band just want to be taken seriously. Guitarist/vocalist Clem C. Clemsen hopes the band's recently released third album, Bombardero, will be the one that...
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Hypochondriacs Could Ruin Glastonbury

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 7, 2009 10:33 am
This year's Glastonbury Festival could be cancelled because of the swine flu virus. Glastonbury festival organizers told the U.K.'s The Sun tabloid they were holding emergency talks to discuss how best to deal with swine flu should the outbreak become worse. This year's sold-out festival is expected to draw about 140,000 people to its site...
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Mike Skinner's Swine Flu Song

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 6, 2009 10:37 am
This month's Grist 13 And Shitty 7 pointed out if you can't poke fun at a possible pandemic, you don't know how to laugh at anything. Mike Skinner of The Streets would probably agree. He's posted a video for a song he's written called "He's Behind You, He's Got Swine Flu," which mocks the swine flu (Mexican Flu for any Israelis...
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Noel Gallagher Caught In Swine Flu Panic

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 1, 2009 11:29 am
Noel Gallagher quickly became attuned to swine flu panic when he sneezed in an airport in Venezuela. Oasis were in the country to play a gig at Caracas' Campo De Futbol USB on Tuesday, which was right in the middle of this week's swine flu panic. "It's all got a bit mad over here," Gallagher wrote in a MySpace blog entry on Wednesday...
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Swine Flu Songs Emerge

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 30, 2009 10:44 am
You had to figure a story about swine flu crisis would show up on this website at some point, since it seems to have infected the news everywhere else. Well, we're writing about it because a number of songs have surfaced about the disgusting bug. Stephan Zielinski, a California blogger and programmer, has made a song about swine flu. He took the...
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