Influence? What influence? - Here's an interesting problem Portuguese schools and doctors are faced with, Teens suffer soap opera virus | Reuters.com.
More than 300 children have complained of symptoms including rashes, breathing difficulties and dizziness at 14 schools in different parts of the country. Some schools have been forced to close.
The outbreak came a few days after the popular "Strawberries with Sugar" teenage television show aired an episode about a life-threatening virus descending on a school.
That can't be possible. The visual mediums aren't supposed to have an affect upon the minds of children?
Those silly chill'ns must be using that TV program as some grand scheme to get out of school. Yeah, that's it.
