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Going to the pub could give you TB

Sarsfield · 2006-03-01 22:41:48

As if things weren't bad enough for the publicans with smoking bans and people not linking the ripoff prices and everyone drinking at home. Now it's a breeding ground for TB -maybe all the smoke used to kill the TB bugs! http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0301/tuberculosis.html

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01-03-2006 11:41pm

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Sarsfield

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As if things weren't bad enough for the publicans with smoking bans and people not linking the ripoff prices and everyone drinking at home. Now it's a breeding ground for TB -maybe all the smoke used to kill the TB bugs!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0301/tuberculosis.html

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#2 02-03-2006 1:48am
senordingdong

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Jaysus.

Well let's hope the bird flu will kill it off.

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#3 02-03-2006 11:39pm
EireRoadUser

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sounds frightening ,surely pubs have nothing to do with it .
Sounds like harney is doing deals with grim reaper again.

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#4 03-03-2006 7:25am
funk-you

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senordingdong wrote:

Jaysus.

Well let's hope the bird flu will kill it off.

Nah, SARS will come back and get it.

-Funk

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#5 03-03-2006 10:27am
SickCert

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Do you have to pay more for it after 11:30.:p

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#6 03-03-2006 6:01pm
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The Snow Didn't Stick

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#7 04-03-2006 10:08am
lostexpectation

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it doesnt' seem to be a trend, just that one outbeak came from someone in bar instead of a school, sounds like some drunk with a cough and poor health care

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