H1N1 influenza A
30 April 2009
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That’s the new name according to the WHO. Well, not really new but official/technical name due to misconceptions about the role of pigs in the outbreak.
Thompson said the flu name change comes after the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency expressed concerns that the term “swine flu” was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to order the slaughter of pigs.“Rather than calling this swine flu … we’re going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A,” he said.
On Wednesday, Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs as precaution, even though experts said swine flu is not spread by eating pork.
Not quite as catchy but with silly slaughters as we witnessed this week in Egypt, perhaps it made sense.
A cartoon for you
http://pastexpiry.blogspot.com/2009/04/cartoon-spyder-pig-meets-swine-flu.html
Past Expiry Cartoon LINK
Feel free to use on a future blog post.
Check out this cartoon about Winnie the Pooh’s Piglet and swine flu!
http://pastexpiry.blogspot.com/2009/05/cartoon-swine-flu-and-piglets-demise.html
*CARTOON*–Feel free to post on your blog or “tweet”
This is a fraud.
The vaccine will make you sick if it doesn’t kill you.
I have found that if you get the swine flu you are sick for 3 days and that’s it.
DON’T TAKE THE SHOT!
the H1N1 or Swine Flu Virus is very scary at first but now it is well controlled by vaccines and prevention by avoiding going into places with incidence of swine flu.
H1N1 or Swine Flu is a bit scary but it a good thing to note that this virus is not that very deadly. .
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