Bird Flu Dies in Our Cold Noses


	Bird Flu Dies in Our Cold Noses

tabsey

5-17-2009 8:53 AM

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tabsey says:

So the people who got it have warm noses? or are they all women suffering the hot flushes of mid age?

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