Reply #1: The change came from three places

[nadinbrzezinski]

1.- THe US government, after pork sales futures fell, crashed what have you

2.- WHO recommendations after pigs were unnecessarily culled in places like Egypt

3.- The FAO (Food Agency for the UN) which warned of this as well

It is not perception management, it is the stoopid that broke out Hell we even had a pig farmer say that he was concerned his piggies would get it from infected people... never mind that it first emerged in piggies, stoopid in spades

Also the other religious nuttery that broke out, the Israeli Minister of Health would not use it since it was not ahem, kosher, and the same went for several arab countries

It wasn't done just because or to manage perceptions

And it has been A-H1N1 from the word go, technical name... of course we should also call it hinie

Oh and when all is said and done I am betting on North American Flu