Some People Need To Practice Safe Swine

In all of their, er, activities

Pigs at risk from people as new flu spreads
LONDON (Reuters) – There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain — commonly known as swine flu — from humans, German researchers said on Thursday.
Widespread transmission from people to pigs could mix up virus strains further, leading to unpredictable changes in the disease.
There have already been a handful of suspected cases of humans passing the current pandemic H1N1 virus to swine. The latest German research confirms it is infectious to pigs and can spread rapidly.

There’s something about the phrase “the latest German research” that just gets me nervous…

categories Fun | | datetime July 10, 2009 1:45 pm

4 Responses to “Some People Need To Practice Safe Swine”

  1. Steve Skubinna says:
    July 10, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    I understand that Herr Doktor Mengele took frozen Jews and bludgeoned pigs to death with the, thus proving that Jews are dangerous to pigs.
    I believe that he also dropped Jews from aircraft onto herds of swine and measured the resulting porcine fatalities.
    The latest German research is yet unclear as to why Jews avoid pigs, given their manifest lethality.

  2. Dave J. says:
    July 10, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Vee haff vays of making zem talk…

  3. bingbing says:
    July 11, 2009 at 3:33 am

    So that would make it people flu, right?

  4. ricki says:
    July 13, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Trying again, my previous comment got caught up in some spam-filter:

    some state fairs are making people stand a minimum of 6 feet back from the swine pens….so the pigs don’t get flu if some idiot decides he still is entitled to go to the fair even if he’s sick and contagious.

    Of course, no similar precautions are taken for the people who may come into contact with said idiot.

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