KATY PERRY has been showing off a new piece of jewellery that she hopes will protect her from the swine flu outbreak.
The I Kissed a Girl singer joked about the virus in her online blog and said she wanted to make sure her new ring would be "super trendy".
She wrote: "Since swine flu is super trendy I wanted to make sure I was in style with my swine flu ring!"
Showing off a photo of her new trinket, she added, "I got this one in Miami... a flying piggy."
She then bizarrely spoke about a recent conversation she's had about the disease - with her cat.
Perry wrote: "Kitty Purry was telling me the other night that she remembers when bird flu was in and now pig flu is cool and she wonders when kitty flu is gonna hit, as she would like to be more popular than she currently already is."