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.
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."
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The pork industry has been hurting Iowa, Indiana, North Carolina and Mexico for the past decade. Maybe it is Karma.
Can they really quantify what kind of an impact this is having on pork sales so soon? I mean, it's been in the mainstream media for less than a week.
Yay, more bacon for me!
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