Before the Centers for Disease Control got around to renaming the 2009 version of the swine flu “H1N1” you had to know that we were in for it.
Any virus that takes its name from a pig is going to have a marketing problem.
That said, swine flu is a serious public health issue that deserves serious discussion [...]

It’s been a flu-infused week.  Phone call after phone call, press release after press release, the Radio Boston team has been forced to understand, process, and document the swine flu crisis currently at hand.  Almost every morning, I’ve felt somewhat feverish.  Sympathetic symptoms are not such a stretch since we’ve been speaking with far too many folks who [...]