Swine flu name change? Flu genes spell pig
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 16:49
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of "swine flu," the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If it is genetically mostly porcine and its parents are pig viruses, it smells like swine flu to them....