Obama Administration: Out With the ‘Swine,’ In With the ‘H1N1 Virus’

if it was called the but monkey flu, who would that offend? Would Barry ask totus to change the name to M323=90823=sdjsd FLU. that’s seems like a good name said barry’s ‘prompter

i think big boy meant to call it the 1n1h virus but he misread totu’s left screen and ended up saying it backward.

Some hard hitting news here Jake, once again the WH press corp strikes again.

Sorry to say it, Jake, but you deserve the kind of comments you see here.
Keep up the good work.

Moving from a colloquial reference to a more accurate one. I can’t really get too excited about it, and the point that some countries are using this to fabricated unfair trade barriers is legitimate. This is why the Executive branch is so big, so that even during one crisis there is a branch to note little things like how the colloquial name for this flu is brewing a billion dollar trade war.

I just played the mp3 voice over “Be Prepared” link found on the CDC site. It’s basic instructions are to call other people (i.e., local leadership) to find out what htey are doing. What if it’s a local leader who play’s the tape? This pretty lame advice. Cough and sneeze etiquette seems to be taking a back seat to call someone up (i.e, reach out and touch someone old ATT TV commercial style). So here’s some revisionist advice: cover your mouth when you cough and nose when you sneeze and remember to then wash your hands throughly to minimize passing on a non-airborne germ.
Dispose wads of Kleenex inside a trash receptical (alot of people seem to miss the can — it’s not a basket ball court if the make-shift hoop is outside your house it’s a TRASH CAN :} If your kitty or puppy sneezes – he or she might appreciate the occasional steam in the bathroom (just shut the door) even without a confirmed flue diagnosis. Let spiders build their webs right outside your doors and window – it won’t stop the flue bug — but it will stop the other bugs from entering the premises. If you got need to see a dentist/hygienist – be sure the and their other patients aren’t breathing in to your space. Worship open space – avoid muliti-people confined spaces (with poor ventilation (elevators, cars, busses, trains, trams…etc) walk instead.

barry needs to come up with a new theme song for this pig flu. maybe totus can fly up to nyc and have it done for tonight’s love fest show.

To Cleveland,
No, this is NOT “bird flu”. Bird flu is H5N1. This is H1N1. This one, actually, from the patterns, hallmarks, time of year, etc, seems to be much closer in resembling the Spanish flu of 1918. Let’s hope it does not turn into that. But no, it is definitely not the same as bird flu. Check out the CDC website, or pandemicflu.gov and it has all the facts there.

Until it was pointed out by Barry, a huge number of people probably hadn’t made the link (no pun intended) between “swine” and “pig” and their breakfast bacon.

Intensive agriculture has a huge lobby. In the US and Mexico, the largest meat producers have have hog and chicken facilities packing thousands of animals together.
To satisfy the growing demand for meat, doubled over the past 50 years, factory farms developed intensive, brutal farming methods where pigs are confined for their entire lives, sometimes in cages too small to turn around. Lagoons of reeking liquid waste, often as large as a football field are part of these operations. In the US, these operations are monitored by the EPA, and over the years have been fined $Millions for pollution violations.
Hundreds of industrial-scale hog facilities have recently popped up in Mexico with thousands employed inside the crowded, pathogen-filled confinement buildings and processing plants. Even if the pigs do not appear sick, a mix of human, bird and swine influenza viruses can cycle in these cramped intense facilities, creating a good environment for mutation of novel viruses.
In the US, intensive livestock production also accounts for 55% of our erosion process, 37% of pesticides applied, 50% of antibiotics consumed, and 1/3 of total discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus to surface water. While it makes health sense to change these confined animal farming methods, going back to raising animals on small farms does not make Agri-business the same profits.
So, vote with your purchase. Buy free range meat raised by smaller farmers who care about their animals’ health and the well being of our environment. Or simply eat less processed meat.

Out with the “swine flu,” and in with the “H1N1.”
Out with the “War of terror,” and in with the “Overseas contingency.”
Anyone else see a pattern???

there was a story on cnn, susan rosegen i think was the reporter. she said that the pig flu is now infecting all pork loin/ pork roast and pork chops that were sold bewteen 4/13/09 to present

dale—did Susan also say the sky is falling? don’t be scared, don’t panic. even if you catch it it’s no worse than the current influenza out there. the treatment is available (anti-retrovirals). those dying have pre-existing health problems related to immunity, the young, the old, those with compromised immune response. this is just the virus of the year. everyone panics and frets and nothing ever happens.

Posted by: Paul Wall | Apr 29, 2009 12:19:46 PM posted, “pigs have nothing to do with this”.
I whole heartedly disagree. While eating pig meat may not be dangerous, intensive hog (and/or poultry) production is most likely where this new virus evolved.
Last year, the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production issued a report on factory farming that included research on emerging forms of avian-swine-human influenza viruses: “Populations exposed to infectious agents arising in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)…may be highly transmissible in or well beyond a community setting.”
And people who work in or live near these factory farms can be human bridges. Studies show hog workers in Europe and North America are far more likely than others to be infected with pathogens such as drug-resistant bacteria, Salmonella, and traditional swine flu.
Workers at these confinement facilities are more at risk of contracting and spreading “zoonotic” diseases than people on smaller-scale operations, with outdoor pens or pasture and far lower animal density. Buy local. Buy from small farms. We need to re-build safety and diversification into our food chain.

I like bacon, saugage, ham and ribs but I don’t want to get the flu. I listen to Chief T Janet N. said not to eat pig or I will get the pig flu. Is there a pill I can take so I don’t get sick?

is obama going to cure the pig flu? I think he should. i’m scare my kids may be infected and i did get him allected.

I sure hope president barck doesn’t get the pig flu. he was down there last week. he look a little tire this morning on the tv. let’s all pray for presidetn barck that he stay health not be sick withthe pig flue.

i live in the chicago area and went to the clinic this morning and got a shot for the swine flu so I should be ok right?

It is the swine flu. Obama is trying to chan ge the world. Well, he is stupid.

Granted this is a H1N1 virus… but there are a LOT of H1N1 varients. Since he named it, I guess we should call this one the Obama H1N1 Flu, to distinguish it from the NEXT H1N1 that we have to deal with.

FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP – that’s the only consistent thing he’s done.

With summer coming on and crowds protesting seems like a good crowd control to me takes the heat of DC and they can fund the banks some more and maybe even pass killer caps on energy and health care kind of like 1971 and the hong kong flu . Oh and lets not forget empty Dr offices are full and I am sure the cdc will get a paycheck next flu season for their new improved flu shots they do hold the pantents don’t they.

The media is making too big a big deal over this. How many people died in the world today from other varients of the flu? Alot more than died today from this Porky Pig flu. The government is going to turn this manufactured crisis into the basis of why they should be in charge of all of our health care.
Simple rules: wash your hands, cover your mouth if you should sneeze or cough, stay home if your feel sick, and avoid unnecessary travel to places where the flu seems to be running rampant. These are all common sense measures. The world will not stop if you miss a day or two of work, or cancel your vacation plans. It’s just a matter of priorities.

this is the swine flu obama did not take care of the problem soon a enought i give obama -F on health care and every thing obama is not running the white house hillary is that every thing is going to #### hillary is a criminal get movie hillary uncensored you will see the only help was the banks the cars comp. thire no jobs people lost thire homes and thire still no jobs where did obama he help

they dont care about the people all they is the money that why obama change it from the swine flu to the name to h1n1 its all about money not the people

Last week I watch one of the medical doctors on a news show. He said even then that it wasn’t then swine flu but a combo of 3 differnt types. Swine being one of the 3. I’m not an Obama fan, but even I think it has been mis-named, but can’t they come up with something with a better name? H1N1 is boring!

Rebekah, I do read it, I believe & I’m ready for it to end.

It is a shame that people do not pay attention to current events unless they are alarming..THAT’S why all the hubub !
The name of the flu is not as important as is the content of the message PROTECT YOURSELF BY PERSONAL CLEANLINESS,
THERE IS A BACTERIA THAT CAN KILL YOU IF YOU DON’T !
We can all help ourselves and one another.
Thank you.

Humans are carnivores. It is wholly unnatural for humans to be vegetarians. Give it up.

It ORIGINATED in pigs.
Does not mean it wasn’t on a “Carrier” Someone that was not affected by it and transfered it to someone that it DID affect. Chill people. Get a vaccine if you are that scared.

Oh boy …..another “crisis King Barry will do NOTHING about. I see a lot of photo ops and finger pointing.
As for the people pleading for the King to do something…..his administration said today that it was too late to seal the border with Mexico.
Great….Another “Man Made Event” with pandemic effects(FX).
100 days and now this….VP Biden called this!!
Good ol’ Hope and Change……I hope we can live with!!
LONG LIVE THE KING!!

“Oh boy …..another crisis King Barry will do NOTHING about.”
So, what would you have him to do? Bomb every pig sty on the grounds there are Weapons of Mass Porcification (WMPs)?

I think this swine flu comes from outer space, and from the sun and the stars, not from pigs. These viruses travel on the light waves, And Obama should do more in this situation, he should send astronats into space, and do more research in space.

It’s very amazing to see some people putting all the blames they could on top of Obama! Why did Obama not anticipate this flu? Why does Obama replace the word “Swine” to “H1N1″? Why? Why? FLIP FLOP … Even a 2 year old boy knows WHY. Only the ones who do not want to know are wondering WHY? It will be fun to see more blames floating around. Next blame may be “Obama invented swine flu!”

It not too Late to close the Border, It’s just too inconvient to close the border , cause lots of wealthy people and Wall street will loose money on a large scale.
It’s Not about the people, it’s about the few top wealthy peoples money, at the Joe 6 packs expense.
Obama thinks Joe 6 pack needs Hope and Confidence. How about Jobs, Homes, & Healthcare? Oh well, be patient, it will get worse befor it gets better. Don’t worry Be happy, grow a garden & watch Obama Live in Luxery, see his dog and swingset? He has a job and roof & food.And he has done so much for America! After all he represented America & bowed down Low to the Saudi King. Yes, Don’t Worry, Obama has superior judgement!

“Why is the swine flu so much more important or severe than the regular flu”
It’s not, which is important to remember. The common, regular seasonal flu kills just over 36,000 people in the U.S. every year (over 13,000 since Jan. ’09), and between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide each year.
This is a lot of hype about nothing. No one ever screams “pandemic” about the regular flu deaths every year, to which this “swine flu” pales in comparison.
Get a grip people. Good hygiene, and there are medications if you get it. Just like the regular old flu.

I have seen people that support the joint Durbin/Grassley bill draw a correlation to the H1B visa and the H1N1 Swine Flu. That correlation is incorrect, but both the H1B and the H1N1 are a pandemic threat to the American society. The H1B body shops targeted by the bill will be forced to hire American talent and limit the number of H1Bs to 50%. Currently, Indian H1B body shops employ about 90% Indians and do not hire Americans and claim that no Americans are capable of doing any skilled work. The work Americans are excluded from by the H1B body shops are jobs like answering the telephone, accounting, computer-related occupations, news reporting, healthcare professional, best-buy salesman, software installation, etc., etc.

H One N One or HONO virus

Does anyone wonder why those 2 guys repeat each other word for word? Obviously trying to prop up the pork industry. But better conditions in that industry could have prevented this outbreak.

This is not political – its potentially quite serious. It really depends on how the virus plays out.
There have been epidemics/pandemics of flu viruses which humans have little immunity to in the past. This is not the ordinary flu – rather quite potentially deadly – and by mechanisms that I need not get into here.
With luck, this will end up being an ordinary hybrid flu- if there is such a thing. If it has resemblance to the 1918 flu, or more recently SARS and the bird flu (which did not progress to human to human transmission) – we’d all better start listening to the government – and stop thinking its political.

>>The common, regular seasonal flu kills just over 36,000 people in the U.S. every year (over 13,000 since Jan. ’09), and between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide each year.
Only half right. Seasonal flus, plural, kill 36,000 in the US. Meanwhile, H1H1 — just one flu — has already killed roughly one hundred (maybe more) in less than a month. If it spreads and kills exponentially, as most flus do, H1N1 could be a lethal epidemic.
Also, for the cynics out there, don’t be lulled into complacency this summer if H1N1 seems to dissipate. That would actually follow the pattern of the Hong Kong flu in ’68, which emerged, went into hiding, then peaked in the fall and winter.
But no one knows what will happen. We’re just in the first pages of chapter one.

vice president in charge, joey biden said on the today show this am that everyone should avoid all forms of public transportation. he said that’s what he’d tell his family. this cat’s no fool. he knows who butters his bread. he would not get near an airplane, bus, subway, train, taxi, ferry because the pig flu is so wide spread.lide he said millions are going to die. stay home.

Despite the fact that the CDC WEBSITE still titles the section dealing with H1N1 “Swine Influenza (Flu)”, Dr. Bessor’s comments to NPR April 29 regarding his sudden avoidance of the term make a great deal of sense. People have jumped to the erroneous conclusion that eating pork is hazardous (hence the economic cosequences highlighted above); they are also likely to assume tha avoiding pork products will keep them safe.

In less than 7 days this is coast to coast, I can’t help but believe this virus is manufactured and loosed in strategic poplulations to get it to this point.

GH1N1? Passing the buck, not the pork. Given that the outbreak of swine flu probably originated in a US owned pork processing factory farm in Mexico, I can understand why Smithfield’s CEO is pressuring the powers that be to stop calling this a swine flu outbreak.
I don’t know anyone stupid enough to think they will catch swine flu from eating bacon. I think the pork processors are much more worried that people will catch the drift that factory farming in unregulated environments bred the H1N1, er, SWINE flu which is evolving into a pandemic.
Factory farming, in addition to be abject misery for the animals, is a breeding ground for bacteria and viruses. Porcine viruses are especially able to jump the barrier to infect humans.
Pump the animals full of antibiotics so that you can crowd more of them together before they get sick and die before you can kill them to be eaten, and you help resistant strains of bacteria to develop.
Bacteria aren’t viruses, but unhealthy conditions breed virus and bacterial mutations that are resistant to drugs.

This has more to do with Political Correctness than anything else. Please Israel and the Muslims to the disregard of the rest of humanity! I am so sick and tired of these terrorists!

Guys, they didn’t just pull the “H1N1″ name out of a hat. ALL flu strands are named after the H and N proteins (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase). These proteins are what allows the virus to infect and damage cells, hence their significance.
According to wikipedia, there are 16 different H antigens (H1 to H16) and 9 different N antigens (N1 to N9), which explains where the numbering comes from.
The spanish Flu of 1918 was a variation of H1N1. H5N1 was the bird flu.

Posted by: mo | Apr 29, 2009 6:11:44 PM
Humans are carnivores. It is wholly unnatural for humans to be vegetarians. Give it up.
MO,Human’s are not carnivores, humans are OMNIvores. Carnivores are solely meat eaters. If humans ate nothing but meat, they would serious health problems. Before you post, review what you about to post.

Technically, since it is actually a combination of human, bird and swine viruses, it should be called :Man-Bird-Pig” flu, or “Mabipi” flu for short. Why are people not eating pigs because of this, anyway? Has anyone stopped eating birds because of this? Are cannibals abstaining from eating other people because of this? It just makes no sense that everyone is focusing on the poor little piggies. Although, some are probably grateful that we are not eating them. I know I am.

This article, reminds me of Desiree Jennings: The cheerleader who got a “seasonal-jab” (not the 2009 H1N1 vaccine) but still got the biggest shock of her life – After 10 days diagnosed with an irreversible nerve-illness called “dystonia”.
Others, keep saying its a one and a million chance, but now that I am seeing article like this. I am thinking otherwise about the credibility of these “flu-vaccines”.
“If ain’t broke don’t fix it”

good handling and sanitation of pork products, this could help the prevention different kinds of virus.