Turns out, after being informed this weekend that the Swine Flu epidemic was beginning of the end for mankind’s tenure on this Earth, that, in fact, it’s not a very big deal and we should generally ignore the over zealous World Health Organisation from now on.

After a few days in which alarming news was fed down to the common man explaining, that a virulous, and previously un-encountered, pig related disease was winging its way around the world leaving death and devastated bacon sales in its wake, it seems that the reality is not quite as apocalyptic.

The Swine Flu, that has killed 81 people in Mexico, has seemingly been unable to continue its deadly rampage after those infected with the disease were treated with the over-the-counter medicine ‘Lemsip.’ I has in fact been claimed that one dose of ‘Lemsip’ can get an infected individual back in good enough shape to complete that ever-so-important presentation the have for the next day.

The media frenzy surrounding Swine Flu has been blamed for a ruined weekend which many people spent huddled in their candlelit basements, surrounded by tins of peaches, and casting Holy Water around them in an attempt to resist the deadly ‘Pig Curse.’

The WHO, have apologised for releasing advice on Saturday suggesting we should all “Run, Run for your lives,” and that any “sneezing or coughing individual should be considered an immediate threat to the survival of the human race and exterminated on sight.”

A spokesman for the WHO said “We got a little carried away. After Avian Flu didn’t really materialise we all got a little disappointed that we wouldn’t have to quarantine millions of people and try to save the world like in Outbreak, then this came along and we thought it was the big one. It went to our heads and we’re sorry.”