Dispensary Corner

PHARMACIST vaccinators, be careful what you wish for!

A highly dangerous drug dealer in Brazil has kidnapped two male nurses and ordered them to immunise his local community against yellow fever.

The operation allegedly run by Thomas Vieira Gomes, also known as “2N”, is based in the Salgueiro region of Rio de Janeiro, one of the poorer areas of the city.

While officials are currently dealing with an outbreak of yellow fever across the country, apparently they were a little slow in getting to the impoverished suburb, so 2N took matters into his own hands.

Along with some henchmen he went to a clinic, grabbed syringes and vaccine doses and took the nurses to a Salgueiro bar where they spent several hours immunising the locals before being returned safely home.

While 2N is one of the country’s most wanted criminals, he is now being hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood, with one politician tweeting “He is still an a**hole but his actions were a public service”.

HEALTHY ageing? Perhaps - or early onset of irrational behaviour.

A 64-year-old Bulgarian man has set a new world record for the longest distance swum while wrapped in a sack.

Yane Petkov also had his feet bound and his hands tied behind his back to perform the feat, swimming more than two miles across Lake Ohrid in Macedonia.

It took him about three hours to complete the distance - but what’s more remarkable is that he didn’t drown in the attempt!