Swine Flu? Morgan Spurlock isn't 'making out with anyone for a week'

By Elizabeth Snead

May 1, 2009 9:43 AM

If anyone has interesting theories on the swine flu epidemic, it's controversial filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who received an award last night for his FX series "30 Days" at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2nd annual "Television With A Conscience Awards."

The filmmaker of "Super Size Me"

and "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?" gave us his exclusive take on the current plague and what's steps he's taking to avoid it. "These things come in waves," says Spurlock. "If anyone's read 'The Tipping Point,' you understand that no matter what it is, whether it is a pandemic or an idea, things kind of flush into society in a lot of different ways. This will reach whatever critical mass it does."

He adds: "There is nothing controversial about what's happening now about swine flu. Mexico is an unmonitored society, factories just dump their waste in the drinking water in some places. So the fact that there was an outbreak of this there is no surprise. There's a lot of Western Medicine out there, it's not that bad. But I don't plan on making out with anybody for a week - if that helps."

-- Additional reporting by Leah Sydney

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