Interesting how pigs got such a bad rap so quickly with this new flu. And Mexico (now they wonder if it indeed started there and whether it has anything to do with pigs). Now, its down to meaningless numbers and letters H1N1 – to keep the pork industry from taking the heat. The Wall Street Journal says all flus have and H and N, “As it turns out, human strains of H1N1 flu are also pretty common.” Let’s just hope we don’t have a lot of flus flying around because we will never remember their names. ‘Did you hear there’s now an H2N3 flu coming up from Peru? And a H1N5 flu from Yemen?’

You get my point. This is nothing to joke about and the fear is that H1N1 will spread and mutate over the course of the summer and come back in the fall as a respiratory illness. Whether it will require a new H and N numbering is unclear. Is there a doctor in the house who can explain?