FL Swine Flu Name Costly to Pork Industry

Randall Weiseman Florida, General, Livestock, Pork

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is asking public health officials, academics and the media to refrain from calling the current H1N1 influenza pandemic “swine flu” as the characterization is both inaccurate and contributing to the collapse of the pork industry throughout North America.