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World animal health body says swine flu wrong name
Reuters
PARIS
The flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it also contains avian and human components and no pig was found ill with the disease so far, the World Animal Health body said on Monday.
A more logical name for it would be "North-American influenza", a name based on its geographic origin just like the Spanish influenza, another human flu pandemic with animal origin that killed more than 50mn people in 1918-1919.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based organisation said in a statement.
Fears of a global flu pandemic are growing around the world after 103 people were killed in Mexico and new infections were found in the US and Canada and possible cases as far afield as Europe, Israel and New Zealand.
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http://www.flyffworld.com/forums/t115525/
i know you probably don't know aaerdan but the chance of his post being a lie is pretty much 0%
it also says it in this post:
http://www.flyffworld.com/forums/t115426/
and there's a news link at the end.