Swine Flu Update

So last I heard, there were 17,410 cases of Swine flu in 62 countries. Of those, 10,053 cases with 17 deaths in the US. What was the last you heard?

I ask because in my line of work I have access to information to swine flu updates but, I’d bet you don’t. The interesting thing to me is that as soon as a new name (H1N1 Swine) was given to this new super disease, the media stopped paying attention.

It seems that once we named it, it was no longer important.

While it has the potential for a world wide catastrophe, apparently it is not as exciting as we wanted it to be. So, this super killer illness has become boring. I for one was wary of the hype from the beginning.

We came up with funny names for it: Hamthrax, The World-wide Hamdemic, and Aporkalypse.

I suppose things may flare up in the fall but, is it really gone? Did naming it cure it? Has it served it’s purpose and is no longer noteworthy? I don’t know. But, never waste a good crisis.


UPDATE: The WHO (not the Band) officially declared the flu a World-wide Pandemic, just days after my post. Coincidence? Actually, yes, only like three people read this site.