Pigs, viruses and politics. On Thursday, the World Health Organization quietly announced that it was dropping the term swine flu. The new virus that still threatens a global pandemic, it said, would now be referred to as influenza A(H1N1). [News Source]

Flu may be the revenge of the critters. We must learn to be more humane with our animals, however, or their long-term impact on humans will be more and more animalistic. [News Source]

Avian Flu Research Sheds Light On Swine Flu Outbreak (Space War) College Park MD (SPX) May 01, 2009 - A recent study by University of Maryland researchers examines the mechanisms underlying transmission of combined avian-human viruses and illustrates how virus outbreaks like that of the current swine flu come about. [News Source]

New virus less lethal than bird flu, SARS: Mexico (New Kerala) Mexico City, May 1 : The new variant of influenza, A(H1N1) commonly known as swine flu, which has killed 15 people in Mexico and one in the US, is less lethal than bird flu and SARS that have killed more than 1,000 people in Asia since 2003, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Friday. [News Source]