bird flu from asia?

[the mongoose]

Don't worry, everything will be just swine.

[Deckard]

I notice several cartoonists - such as Martin Rowson and Morten Morland below - are making the link between sick pigs and the sick state of capitalism/fat bankers:





And hot on the heels of anguished-looking traders, I now give you: anguished members of public with masks.



Fajitas and Corona, eh?

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

I'm sure the boy in photo #2 is saying "Fk this".

[matt]

Oh dear

JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.
Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.
Scientists are unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identifed first in the United States. They say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing.
Two Israelis who recently visited Mexico have been hospitalized with symptoms of the flu. Health authorities have not yet confirmed whether they actually have the virus.
The current strain of swine flu is thought to have originated in Mexico where more than 100 people have been killed by the disease so far.
Laboratories in the U.S. and Canada have confirmed that of the samples tested so far, the swine flu virus in Mexico and U.S. appear to be the same.

[Dunwho]

Originally Posted by matt

Oh dear

So .... let me get this straight...

..dont call it swine flu so as not to refer to an animal they already consider unclean...

...instead lets call it Mexican Flu and refer to a whole nation of millions directly.... and effectively call them unclean?

...hmmmm that doesnt insult anybody at all at all!