(Re)Name That Flu!

NPR is taking up Fiona Feck’s challenge to have the public resolve the swine flu/H1N1 virus name controversy.

According to The New York Times:  ”Maybe, she suggested, there could be a competition, and members of the public could come up with a better name.”

What thou asks of the internet, thou shalt recieve.   From Twitter (#NameThatFlu) and Facebook came a flood of awesomely delightful names.  Here are handful:

  • Pigdemic
  • Aporkalypse Virus
  • The Virus Formerly Known As Swine Flu
  • Colbert Flu
  • Green Phlegm and Ham
  • Mad Swine Disease
  • Bacon Flu
  • Lou Dobbs Flu
  • The Other White Death
  • Snaflu
  • Unnecessarily-Overhyped-Uberfluenza
  • Influenza nervosa
  • SPAMdemic
  • Hamageddon
  • FARS
  • The Baconic Plague
  • Madsow
  • Wiburculosis

Even though the US Department of Agriculture and various governmental outlets have  officially been calling it the “2009 H1-N1 flu”, the blogosphere should pick its favorite(s) and go with it.

May 5, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts

2 Responses

  1. Jillian - May 11, 2009

    Matt has dubbed it the hiney flu… reading H1N1 as HiNi. I am sticking with swine flu.

  2. foodbubbles - May 11, 2009

    Lol. I dare say, though, that calling it the “hiney flu” could give people the wrong impression about its mode of transmission.

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