"...it is extremely unfortunate, rather almost reckless, for the media to refer to this new form of flu as “swine” flu. First of all, there is absolutely no proof or evidence at this time that a single pig anywhere in the US or in Mexico has contracted or even incubated this new form of flu. The Mexican Organization of Pork Producers and Hog Industry, Ornapor, inspected all hog production facilities in the vicinity of Mexico City’s 20 million people and did not find a single contaminated pig. Here in the US, there have also been no reported instances of any hogs or hog herds having contracted the disease. The authorities are completely baffled as to the source of this form of flu and yet the media continues to label it as “swine” flu merely because the experts have “conjectured” that it “might have been” incubated in a pig because pigs are known as mixing vehicles for various forms of flu and this one has elements of human, pig and bird flu in it.

So based on this “weighty” analysis, an entire industry here in the US has been shoved into extreme economic distress with even China and Russia succumbing to the hysteria and slapping bans on imports of US pork. It all just serves to show how reckless and irresponsible reporting can destroy hard working farmers and livestock producers especially when even the health authorities all will emphasize that one cannot contract the disease by eating properly cooked and prepared pork. As far as I am concerned they might as well have called the stuff “Armadillo Flu” because for all we know, some damn armadillo incubated it. It is nice to know that I have been joined in my views about this nomenclature by none other than the World Organization for Animal Health, also known as the OIE, a Paris-based organization which also is calling the term “swine” flu misleading and suggest another name such as North American influenza based on its area of origin..."

http://jsmineset.com/2009/04/27/hourly-action-in-gold-from-trader-dan-108/