Aporkalypse Now: Swine flu in Lowell

Channel 4, via AP, reports two Lowell kids back from Mexico have been diagnosed with swine flu. Both are doing well and never returned back to school after getting sick, so officials doubt they spread it to classmates.

The state has activated its emergency swine-flu line: Dial 211 for the 411 on your swine-flu questions.

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You'd been saving that pun

You'd been saving that pun for a while now, haven't you?

Oh, you know it

It was either that or

HAMAGEDDON

Riddle

Q: If a doctor keeps kosher, is he allowed to treat Swine Flu?

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

The name game

Swine flu: Israel row over non-kosher virus name

Israel will continue to use the name Swine Flu for the deadly virus sweeping the world despite religious calls for it to be rebranded Mexican Flu.

Which I totally don't get, because it's not like this is supposed to be a good thing about pork.

Huh!

And Wow! Folks are actually considering this name thing seriously. I was just setting up a punchline for anyone who might have wanted to grab it...

A: Only if the doctor specializes in oinkology.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

It's the other white plague

But you certainly are unclean for seven days if you get it.

And let's not forget swan flu

On Monday, I linked to Jody's self diagnosis of swan flu. Ha, ha, very funny, she doesn't want to go to work after vacation week.

Apparently, lots of people are taking it seriously. My linky post got 574 page views on Monday, 1,300+ page views yesterday and is so far up to 500 or so today, mostly coming from people searching for "swan flu" on Google, which, for some reason, considers that little page the second most relevant resource on swan flu in the entire world (even though it's Jody who has it, not me).

Yeesh.

Maybe they can't spell?

Swan, swine, what difference?

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