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Swine Flu anyon got a better name?

Published 29 April 09 11:58 AM | the beast [Edit]

Aparently The US are looking into renaming swine flu to protect their pig industry (fearing people may stop eating pork). Anyone got any suggestions?

 "The current influenza situation should be referred to as H1N1 Flu Outbreak."

Who said scientists were boring eh?

If this goes ahead 'pigs might fly'   - at least then we'll have a real case of swine flew (sorry) 

THE BEAST

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# kansasfarmer said on April 29, 2009 02:01 PM:

China has already banned pork imports from the USA over this, hog market down 6 cents a pound in two days on the CME.

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# Isabel Davies said on April 29, 2009 03:29 PM:

How about calling it an Over Reaction?

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# meggiewes said on April 29, 2009 08:54 PM:

Four legged thing with trotters and snout flu?

Snout and trotter flu? (Foot and Mouth!)

~Meggiewes~

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# crazysheep said on April 29, 2009 10:46 PM:

How about 'PIG SICK!'

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# Jacobus said on April 30, 2009 02:58 PM:

Given how the subject has dominated the news media to the exclusion of any other bad news, how about Politically Expedient Flu

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# andy h said on April 30, 2009 09:58 PM:

I vote for "Politician Flu" when can we start the cull?

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# andy h said on April 30, 2009 09:58 PM:

I vote for "Politician Flu" when can we start the cull?

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# Jacobus said on May 1, 2009 09:43 AM:

Heard on the radio this morning - WHO have decided that, as there is no evidence of any connection between the new virus and pigs, they will stop refrring to it as Swine Flu and call it by its propper name - Influenza type A, H1N1.

I can just see The Sun sub-editors falling over themselves to come up with snappy headlines based on that!

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