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Mumbai mayor's faux pas, calls swine flu a 'heart disease'
February 20, 2015
Swine flu cases across India have crossed the 11,000 mark but our netas continue to be ignorant.
Mumbai Mayor Snehal Ambekar called it a "heart disease" and
made a bizarre suggestion that the municipal authority will plant trees
to check the disease.
"Swine flu is a heart disease... Hence, BMC will plant trees, develop
gardens and parks to check swine flu," Ambekar told reporters after
garlanding the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the occassion of
his birth anniversary in Mumbai yesterday.
The blooper comes a day after West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee was quoted saying that swine flu "mostly
happens from mosquito bite".
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