Times Online religion correspondent Ruth Gledhill calls for help from Jewish readers on why the swine flu cannot be named after the non-kosher meat in Israel here.
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no reason, really. jewish law forbids specifically eating of pigs; you are however free to own them, play with them, ride on their backs, name diseases after them, etc.