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Originally Posted by BC-Axeman
The "politically correct" term is now "Mexican flu"
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Actually, it's the politically correct that were calling it the swine flu, vice Mexican. Large scale/pandemic influenza outbreaks have long been named for where the seem to originate, e.g. the asiatic (1889), spanish (1918), asian (1957), hong kong (1968) and russian (1977) flu's. I suspect people were worried about offending mexico...
I think what we need is a UN commission to develop a flu naming convention to ensure no one is offended during future pandemics. /sarcasm
