As pork prices tumble, Minnesota won’t call it “swine flu”

Minnesota’s top health officials are in close communication with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta about the new flu that has killed more than 100 people in Mexico. But they aren’t calling the flu by the same name. The CDC calls it “swine flu,” but Minnesota Health Commissioner, Dr. Sanne Magnan, says the official state term is “H1N1 novel influenza.”