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God Bless!!!

Oh, swine flu is spreading fast in Orissa!
Where in hell is that exactly, you may ask?
Well, it's just one of the tiny states of the Republic of India. If you are trying to find out on a map, look EAST if you may please ...
40 million people ... all the relevant statistics that matters.

And what do the blessed and intelligent folks of Orissa — happens to be the state that I am from — do to 'fight' swine flu?
Oh, they turn to homeopathy of course!
Wow! How smart of them!

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