Malaysia’s state-run news agency is urging its readers to avoid homosexual sex and masturbation if they want to remain free of swine flu. An article published Sunday by Bernama, the Malaysian government news agency, singles out homosexual sex as an activity that can cause people to contract swine flu, while also emphasizing that “normal sexual union between members of the opposite sex was absolutely safe.” Quoting a Dr. V. M. Palaniappan, the article states that homosexual sex “caused the body to develop friction heat which in turn, produced acid and made the body hyperacidised.”