A classic pop song took on new meaning when a mini flash mob surprised Launceston shoppers on Saturday.

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While passers-by stopped to watch, a small green-clad mob launched into a performance of Michael Jackson's 1908s anthem Beat It .

Only the words were different.

Singer Travis Hennessy sang a completely reworked lyric - "know the symptoms, know the signs, ask if it's sepsis, it's right to fight" - to coincide with World Sepsis Day.

The 12pm performance only lasted five minutes, but Sepsis Awareness Tasmania co-ordi

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