Does the Cabinet have bird flu?

I heard a rumour very early this morning that Nick Smith was in isolation, as he had Influenza A and it is possible he may have Swine Flu as he has been overseas on his honeymoon.

I forgot about the story until 10 minutes ago and finally rang up the Beehive to ask if it was true, and found the story had broken a few minutes ago on Stuff. If I had drunk less, I could have had a scoop!

We obviously wish Nick a speedy recovery, and hopefully he does not have Swine Flu.

If he does, then it is possible he has infected the Cabinet with it. And in Mexico it has a 6% mortality rate, and we have a Cabinetof 20 – so hey Nathan Guy may be getting a promotion from Chief Whip earlier than he thinks 🙂

Okay joking about it is a bit too bad taste – especially if anything bad does happen.

Talking of swine fly, I see we are being told we should no longer be calling it Swine Flu and the WHO wants to have people refer to it as “2009 H1N1”. Yeah right – that will catch on.