Mike Gallagher

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We'd be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren't for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

American Critic

Nathan Wolfe

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.

American Scientist

Annie Lennox

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Scottish Musician

Sayed Kashua

When there's a revolution in Egypt, you can't really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that's not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu.

Israeli Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

American Journalist

Ezra Pound

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

American Poet

Alan Tudyk

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

American Actor

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

British Poet

Gertrude Stein

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

American Author

George Dennison Prentice

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

American Editor

Used to talk about the animal pig in agriculture or cooking without negative meaning.

Animal Reference

The word 'swine' is more common in historical or rural contexts than in modern urban settings.

Old-fashioned Term

When calling someone a 'swine', it suggests they are particularly unpleasant or disgusting.

Insulting Usage

Using 'swine' to describe a person can be very offensive. Use cautiously if at all.

Be Sensitive

This term is informal and not used in formal or professional communication.

Colloquial Tone

In medical contexts, 'swine' relates to diseases originating from pigs, notably flu.

Medical Term

Swine flu can be serious, so the term carries concerns about health and safety.

Serious Disease

The term often appears in media reports during outbreaks or health crises.

News and Media

 In microbiology you really don't want to get a symmetrical object, because they are generally rather nasty. The swine flu virus, at the moment, is a symmetrical object. And it uses the efficiency of symmetry to be able to propagate itself so well. But on a larger scale of biology, actually symmetry is very important, because it actually communicates genetic information.

Marcus du Sautoy:...

 I mean, that's all I heard growing up. I didn't know what to do with my life, but I was told if you follow your passion, it's going to work out. I can give you 30 examples right now. Bob Combs, the pig farmer in Las Vegas who collects the uneaten scraps of food from the casinos and feeds them to his swine. Why?

Learning from dirty jobs...

 many different bits of the scientific world for example molecular structure what crystals are possible we can understand through the mathematics of symmetry in microbiology you really don't want to get a symmetrical object because they're generally rather nasty the swine flu virus at the moment is a

Symmetry, reality's...

 This vaccine is so small it can be grown in a common bacteria, E. coli. Now, as you know, bacteria reproduce quickly -- it's like making yogurt -- and so we could produce enough swine origin flu for the entire world in a few factories, in a few weeks,

Seth Berkley: HIV and...

 but soon, 40 of these attendees would be diagnosed with swine flu. More often than not, sick animals don’t infect humans. But when they do, these cross-species infections, or viral host jumps, have the potential to produce deadly epidemics.

How do viruses jump from...

 reproduce quickly it's like making yogurt and so we could produce enough swine origin flu for the entire world in a few factories in a few weeks with no eggs for a fraction of the cost of current methods

HIV and flu -- the...

 during the classical swine fever outbreak. You get a new disease that can be deadly. We eat insects -- they're so distantly related from us that this doesn't happen. So that's one point for insects.

Marcel Dicke: Why not...

 so our label is for you in a second but the height here when they point out is the intensity of certain fears in as reported in the media let me put them out to this swine flu pink bird flu SARS

The beauty of data...

 much more wooded the people coming brought sheep and cattle and swine land needed to be cleared and their grazing prevented the forest from coming back and after a long time the thin

Iceland Is Growing New...

 of all human infectious diseases which one is the most deadly maybe already thinking about SAS swine flu Ebola