Flu Who
Cidu Bill on Apr 30th 2009
The World Health Organization announced today that, at urging of meat producers, it is officially changing the name of “Swine Flu” to “Influenza A.”
I’m not making this up.
Do they seriously believe that anybody will really start referring to the virus as Influenza A? I’d be shocked if a single news outlet even once uses the new name without at least parenthetically referring to the old name as well.
May 1 update: As of today, neither NPR nor the BBC has gotten the memo: Both continue to refer to “swine flu” (probably because, you know, that’s its name).
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