The country has recorded just three deaths from swine flu -- Maryland alone has had seven --but officials are taking no precautions. In addition to public health officials' endless pleas that everyone wash their hands, officials are saying no hand shaking, face caressing and one website even suggests folks keep a three-foot buffer zone around them and wear masks.
Some people are not happy about the clampdown on the kissing custom. So they've devised some subsitutes. Here's my favorite part of the AP story on restrictions of la bise:
Awwww!
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