<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:54 PM, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Actually, you could transmit various diseases by the up-close act of hugging. And so the Japanese version of this will have the huggers wearing medical face masks! lol<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br><br>And indeed, some "divine hug" faith-healing whackaloon managed to cause a measles epidemic in Australia recently by just such a method.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Measles-outbreak-linked-to-Amma-faithful/2006/05/05/1146335903781.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Measles-outbreak-linked-to-Amma-faithful/2006/05/05/1146335903781.html</a><br>
<br>Joseph<br><br><br><br> <br></div></div>