Swine flu is offensive

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive:
ERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.

Scientists are unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identifed first in the United States. They say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing.
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2 comentarii:

CoNsPirAcY said...

Here in Belgium they already call it Mexican flu..
I like swine flu better :)

raim said...

maybe this image can help them...
http://raim.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-mexican-flu-v-bird-flu.html

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