The term “Spanish Lady” appears to have come from a newspaper cartoon.

The Avian Influenza is still in the incubating phase, how virulent it will be when it hops from hogs to human to human transmission, I don’t know. It already has hopped from birds to hogs to people, but you don’t have a pandemic until you get a virulent strain that is easily transmissible.

Nothing like a good pandemic to bring out the OCD in you

I would like to see huge changes to the industrial farming business, but with the world population growing as quickly as it is, I don’t see that happening any time soon. Homesteading (growing your own veggies, raising a few fowl) is probably your safest bet for the time being.

Scientists and Infection Specialist have been worrying about swine involvement for quite a while now. Swine (Porcine) have a great deal of DNA in common with humans. When the Bird Flu was constantly in the news many scientists fears that a pig would contract the bird flu and then pass it onto humans in a more virulent and easier spread version. Here is a science blog site that is keeping up on all the changes and updates.

Cough into your elbow, not hand. Wash your hands often and keep a hand sanitizer around for when you can’t get to soap. Keep your hands away from your face. Rest, keep hydrated and hope for the best.

Lets start calling this strain of flu “Crypto-flu”.

Will this new danger help us reconsider our reckless industrial farming techniques? Or are the lives of a few hundred Mexicans a small price to pay for our beloved chicken wings & ham sandwiches?

No, my obsession lies in HOW and WHERE did this outbreak begin.

The flu virus spreading globally should not be called “swine flu” as it also contains avian and human components and no pig allegedly has been found ill with the disease so far, a French group, the World Animal Health says.

This is something where I also have a hard time understanding, and if our friend Loren can help us out, that will be great. So far, none of the medical experts that have been interviewed in the Mexican radio & television have said that this virus strand has swine, avian & human elements. They insist this is a new mutated strand that jumped from pigs to humans (HOW nobody is willing to speculate right at the moment) and now at this level 4 threat declared by the WHO, from humans to humans.

So, what’s this about the virus having also avian elements? Some people use this to speculate that the virus has been engineered as a biological weapon, and from there you effortlessly jump to any kind of NWO conspiracy theories :-/

Here in Texas, Rick Perry, who declined federal funds for unemployment and decried the “rampant spending” is now calling for the federal government to send us several thousand doses of tamiflu…