Okay, so call me stupid, but why do they call the bird cold "avian flu" but the pig cold "swine flu" Does the parts of speech not match?
The adjective for of or pertaining to pig is "porcine" so..., correspondingly, "porcine flu".
Of course,... they never spoke of "bovine mania",... probably because it sounds like crazy _for_ cows, instead of "mad cows"
YMMV I suppose.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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