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Don't Call Swine Flu, Swine Flu

I wish this were from The Onion.  But, no, this is truly how politically correct the United States has become: WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - What's in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu.Given that swine flu comes from - well, swine - you'd think the government would stick with the name.  The farmers in the Midwest might cry:At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the "H1N1 virus."Now that's a memorable name!  Educating the public will be easy to do with such a name.  After all, it's important that a disease that might strike millions have a memorable name...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).