I do not have "flying pig flu", or any other kind!

Randy Cassingham writes the most popular email newsletter in the world (now that Boing Boing has become an RSS feed).  He says:

[G]enetic sequencing has shown that the current H1N1 pandemic virus is an amalgam of four different strains: North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and a swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe.  In other words, half swine, a quarter bird, and a quarter plain ol' human influenza, strains found around the world all mixed together.  It's that mix that helps make it so easily passed around.

(And when I sent out a note to some friends saying that I was recovering from Swine Flu, one of the wags, knowing the above, replied that it wasn't pure swine flu, but one mixed with bird flu, and thus it was more properly termed "Flying Pig Flu". Yeah: I like hanging around smart funny people. :-)

(Randy got the flu while giving a talk at a Mensa conference, so obviously he isn't *that* smart...)