Comment by Johnny on April 28, 2009 at 6:14pm

LOL! And the response...

Mexico complains to Israel about Litzman's new name for swine flu

Mexico on Tuesday launched an official complaint to Israel regarding Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman's suggestion to call swine flu "Mexican flu" in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork. Mexico's Ambassador to Israel Frederico Salas complained to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the name Mexican influenza was bothersome and worrying.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that Israel had no intention of changing the name of the virus and emphasized the friendly ties between Israel and Mexico.

During a press conference Monday, Litzman said the reference to pigs was offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu."

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Comment by Johnny on April 28, 2009 at 6:20pm

And still more if you're interested...

The Naming of Swine Flu, a Curious Matter

Comment by Cara Coleen on April 28, 2009 at 7:06pm

Wait. Ok. That makes no sense. How are they offended by that? This flu kills people, therefore it is "unclean"... to those religions, pigs are unclean. It makes perfect sense that they would call it Swine Flu! It's a bad thing! Calling it Mexican flu IS really offensive since... um... Mexicans shouldn't be called unclean as opposed to as stupid animal... that they already consider unclean. WTF. Retards. I mean, just because they have some claim to the status of pigs doesn't mean it is suddenly stricken from the conversations or references of other people.

Comment by Nick on April 28, 2009 at 10:15pm

Can we change human papilloma virus to woman papilloma virus? Since the first person to have it may have been a woman.

Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on April 29, 2009 at 12:38am

Yet again...*facepalm*

Comment by a7 on April 29, 2009 at 5:32am

I ma not looking forward to the same tactics being used here in the UK and europe. Sadly we tend to be apologetic to these wankers, take the case of the wee fat man cartoons.

Lets wait and see but i predict demonstrations on UK street and a sudden change of name. I hope the UK media find a backbone.

G

Comment by Johnny on April 29, 2009 at 11:09am

Jesus & Mo

Comment by Sam Singleton Atheist Evangelist on April 29, 2009 at 1:39pm

UPDATE: Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman now favors referring to swine flu as "Palestinian flu."

Comment by Johnny on April 30, 2009 at 1:44pm

Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu

Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who blocked streets and stoned vehicles of Health Ministry workers who came to carry out the government's order.

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Experts suspect swine flu, a strange new mix of pig, bird and human flu virus, originated with pigs then jumped to humans and is now spreading through human-to-human contact. Health authorities have said you cannot contract the flu by eating pork.

Comment by Johnny on May 7, 2009 at 12:37pm

LOL!

Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear

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