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Archbishops advise against sharing chalice during swine flu pandemic

by Charlie BoydPosted: Monday, July 27, 2009, 16:05 (BST)Christian TodayThe Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to bishops in the Church of England advising them to halt the sharing of the chalice during communion to help prevent the spread of swine flu.During communion, members of the congregation typically drink wine from a chalice before it is wiped clean by the presiding minister and administered to the next communicant.The Archbishops have issued the latest guidelines following

Annabel Bentley: Pregnancy and swine flu: facemasks and self imprisonment?

If you’re pregnant lock yourself in the house, shut the curtains and wear a facemask if you so much as put your nose outside the door… has advice to pregnant women finally gone too far? Or, given that at least  six healthy women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy are reported to be in intensive care with pandemic flu in Australia is this reasonable advice? The difficulty is that as yet we don’t know enough about the behaviour of the new H1N1 flu virus

Government virus expert paid £116k by Tamiflu anti-viral makers

By David Derbyshire Daily Mail | A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic.