That's the new name according to the WHO. Well, not really new but official/technical name due to misconceptions about the role of pigs in the outbreak.
Thompson said the flu name change comes after the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency expressed concerns that the term "swine flu" was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to order the slaughter of pigs.Not quite as catchy but with silly slaughters as we witnessed this week in Egypt, perhaps it made sense.
"Rather than calling this swine flu ... we're going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A," he said.
On Wednesday, Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs as precaution, even though experts said swine flu is not spread by eating pork.
