why is the MSM insisting on calling it "swine" flu when it's either a hybrid flu OR

[seemslikeadream]

a genetically modified flu? Calling it GM flu is the same number of characters...or does that reveal too much?

:rofl:




http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE53N4ZC20090424
FACTBOX: New flu strain is a genetic mix

[Bragi]

1. It's the W.H.O that names the disease, not the MSM /nt

[seemslikeadream]

2. ok then why did they name it that?

With all due respect, when I read how there is no proven transmissibility between swine and there is clear evidence that this is a 'hybrid flu'

[TahitiNut]

3. "Swine" +"avian" = Pigs fly.

:shrug:

[qwertyMike]

4. Because it originated from PIGS

Jeez

[seemslikeadream]

5. but it is NOT the swine flu of old

all flu is not the same

[MercutioATC]

6. There IS no "THE" swine flu.

Swine flu is a classification. This is A swine flu.

It's "the" swine flu in this context because it's the swine flu we're currently dealing with.

[Occam Bandage]

7. Because the virus is genetically majority swine. If it were majority avian,

it would be called avian flu. If it were majority human, it would simply be called flu, though the media might call it hybrid flu to distinguish it from the standard yearly flu.

It isn't genetically modified. Viruses mutate and share genetic information all the time.

[robertpaulsen]

8. Spanish influenza of 1918 wasn't Spanish either.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[crimsonblue]

9. the strain originated in pigs...

yes there are human and avian DNA in the virus, but the breeding ground for the bug was in pigs on megafarms in Mexico.

[Avalux]

10. It's common for influenza to have a mix of genetic material from different species -

this genetic make-up of this H1N1 subtype is primarly porcine, which is why it's being called that.

There's no reason to think it's been manufactured (especially by GM ;-))

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