Outbreak spurs ‘no kissing’ talk
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This article was published 07/05/2009 (6319 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ON Twitter, CNN’s chief medical correspondent advocates the "el-bump" — bumping elbows, not fists, when you meet another person.
"It’s not as cool as the fist bump, but cheaper," neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta tweeted over the weekend.
In Mexico, federal health authorities want people to stop shaking hands and giving kisses.
But simple pecks on the cheek? Can you really get swine flu that way?
No, some experts advise.
"This flu strain doesn’t seem to be terribly virulent, so I don’t think it’s anything that should make anyone change their behaviour," said Dalius Briedis, who runs the infectious diseases department at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital.
— Canwest News Service
