Knew immediately what the story would be based on the headline. THAT is effective, subby.

Well played subby

Here's a quick list of swine flu puns. Enjoy!

Bacon Lung, Pigluenza, Osteoboarosis, Porkulosis, ManBirdPig, Piggy Pox, Hamthrax, Porkinson's, Swinebifida, Porcine Pandemic, Porkitis, A Case of The Oinks, Swine-usitis, Swine-us Infection, Sausage Cough and the Aporkapylse.

Robot Devil's Advocate: Here's a quick list of swine flu puns. Enjoy!

Bacon Lung, Pigluenza, Osteoboarosis, Porkulosis, ManBirdPig, Piggy Pox, Hamthrax, Porkinson's, Swinebifida, Porcine Pandemic, Porkitis, A Case of The Oinks, Swine-usitis, Swine-us Infection, Sausage Cough and the Aporkapylse.

When I viewed the case zero story on CNN (what now seems so long ago), I turned to my dorm-mate and said, "I sure don't want that Mexican Bacon Sickness."

We laughed.

That said: PIGS! PIGS! PIGS! PIGS!

Okay, this H1N1 strain of swine flu isn't supposed to be zoonotic, transferred from human to human instead of swine to human. But it is transferring from humans to cats and ferrets now. This virus is weird.

Guess I have to rethink my plan of using my kittens as kleenex if I get the swine flu.

Ah, good, the cat's going to be okay.

Really is a strange virus though. Can't think of many that transfer like that.

Yea that headlines so on point, i honestly dont even have to post in this thread.

done for fun.

FunkOut: Okay, this H1N1 strain of swine flu isn't supposed to be zoonotic, transferred from human to human instead of swine to human. But it is transferring from humans to cats and ferrets now. This virus is weird.

Frequent drastic mutations means all bets are off.

It's still not zoonotic...this strain of H1N1 is circulating within the human population now, not the swine population. You won't get this strain from hanging out with pigs. Does that mean another strain won't jump from pigs to people somewhere else? Not at all. Flu viruses are very weird in general.

This is honestly the first time I've been a bit worried, at all, regarding H1N1.

If I get it, whatever. I'm healthy and young, I'll be sick for a few days, miss some work, and be fine.

But, my kittehs. I can't haz sick kittehs. I kinda wish I had gotten the shot now.

Catastrophic!

FunkOut: Okay, this H1N1 strain of swine flu isn't supposed to be zoonotic, transferred from human to human instead of swine to human. But it is transferring from humans to cats and ferrets now. This virus is weird.

Viruses mutate or -some might say- evolve. I got vaccinated yesterday, so my kitteh is safe.

GWSuperfan: FunkOut: Okay, this H1N1 strain of swine flu isn't supposed to be zoonotic, transferred from human to human instead of swine to human. But it is transferring from humans to cats and ferrets now. This virus is weird.

Viruses mutate or -some might say- evolve. I got vaccinated yesterday, so my kitteh is safe.

I know, I just don't really hear much about viruses jumping from humans to cats.

GWSuperfan: Viruses mutate or -some might say- evolve. I got vaccinated yesterday, so my kitteh is safe in two to three weeks.

/minor quibble

cat in question?

/hot!

Robot Devil's Advocate: Here's a quick list of swine flu puns. Enjoy!

Bacon Lung, Pigluenza, Osteoboarosis, Porkulosis, ManBirdPig, Piggy Pox, Hamthrax, Porkinson's, Swinebifida, Porcine Pandemic, Porkitis, A Case of The Oinks, Swine-usitis, Swine-us Infection, Sausage Cough and the Aporkapylse.

My Ex-girlfriend had a chronic case of the sausage cough.

On a related note, when checking Washington State election results over at the Seattle PI website, I discovered that the PI has a LOLcats section. (new window)

Tofino: Knew immediately what the story would be based on the headline. THAT is effective, subby.

Couldn't have said it better.

It is ok. I don't like cats.
Really I will be fine.

"Now here's an interesting person. Apart from being a full-time stapling machine, he can also give a cat influenza."

/not obscure

Good, it's only targeting those retarded LOLcats. Maybe it will do us all a favour and get rid of them for good.

moar funny pictures

Cat Scratch Fever?

What utter ridiculousness. I'm assuming (not sure) that the H in H1N1 stands for 'human'.

Thus, swine flu in a cat is obviously not what we know as H1N1, and thus any medical prognosis for said cat is unknown, not relative to swine flu in a human (which prognosis is undetermined, at best).

50% of dogs, for instance, are HIV+ on an HIV antibody test:

"Writing in the journal Cancer Research, Strandstrom and colleagues reported that 72/144 (50%) of dog blood samples "obtained from the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, University of California, Davis" tested in commercial Western blot assays, "reacted with one or more HIV recombinant proteins [gp120--21.5%, gp41--23%, p31--22%, p24-- 43%]" [4]."