Utah’s Pork Industry Says “Swine Flu” Title Is A Raw Deal (2News Salt Lake City) It is a time of year when pork prices usually rise, but the name “swine flu” is being blamed for the drop in recent days. [News Source]

Luciano: Stay home from work? That’s sick (Peoria Journal Star) Swine flu? Yawn. Public-health scares come and go so often, we feel inoculated to media overhype. You know what would actually frighten me? To see a West Nile mosquito riding a killer bee sitting on a SARS-infected bird atop a flu-ridden swine straddling a mad cow. [News Source]

Pork Industry Fights Concerns Over Swine Flu (New York Times) Even as medical professionals tell the public that pork is safe to eat, Wall Street analysts predicted a sharp decline in sales at grocery stores,. [News Source]

UCF grad Michelle Knight plays many, many Jersey girls in ‘Jersey Boys’ (Orlando Sentinel) National tour comes to Orlando May 6-24. Behind every Jersey Boy, there's a Jersey Girl. The quartet of young men who play the Four Seasons in the long-running Broadway hit Jersey Boys may be the stars of the show. But each of them plays only one character. Michelle Knight plays 15 or 16. [News Source]

Reacting To Swine Flu (WILX 10 Lansing) People are rescheduling flights and taking precautions as Swine Flu continues to baffle and sicken many [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) A year ago today, the MBC investigative program “PD Notebook” called a downer cow a mad cow in an episode titled, “Breaking Coverage – Are U.S. Beef Imports Really Safe from Mad Cow Disease?” [News Source]

Canada’s farmers could be battered by impact of swine flu outbreak (CBC) The swine flu outbreak could have a disastrous effect on Canadian agricultural producers, many of whom rely on Mexican workers to plant and harvest crops. Meanwhile, Manitoba pork producers are being advised to step up security measures and surveillance to keep their pigs healthy. [News Source]

Flu makes US pork industry queasy (The Cincinnati Enquirer) Misconceptions about the spread of swine flu are enough to make the pork industry sick. [News Source]

Canada issues warning against travel to Mexico (CTV British Columbia) The Public Health Agency of Canada is advising against all non-essential travel to Mexico, due to the swine flu outbreak that has been linked to the deaths of 152 people in Mexico. [News Source]

Pork trade bans ‘not based on science’. Panic about the spread of swine flu has prompted several countries to ban pork imports, despite assurances the virus is not spread by eating infected pig meat. [News Source]