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  Flu name debate simmers as disease beckons

H1N1 is making the rounds again this fall, and so is the debate over what to call it.

Last weekend, 120 agricultural journalists and communications gathered for the annual meeting of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation in Edmonton and heard Alberta communications specialist Lee Funke’s take on the matter.

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For his part, Valeriote has written CBC accusing the news organization, which has been unmoved by pleas to drop “swine flu,” of ignoring its national role.

“Surely there is a greater good to be achieved in the agriculture industry, that both deserves and requires our help, than there is harm to be created, if any at all, by abandoning the swine flu nomenclature,” he wrote. “As a public institution, with an identified conscience . . . the public would expect this kind of conscientious response.”

Read the full story in the Guelph Mercury.

 
 
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