Pork prices plummeted this week, or at least in the futures market for May.

That’s among reasons why Hoosier pork producers are happy to hear that government officials are now using the name “Influenza A (H1N1)/North American/Human” flu for what had been reported first as “swine flu.”

I’m not so sure “Influenza A (H1N1)/North American/Human” is going to fit into too many newspaper headlines, and so far the folks on TV seem to be sticking with “swine flu.”

We’ll report in Thursday’s edition of The Tribune and online at TribTown.com about how local pork producers and local health and emergency management officials are dealing with the flu outbreak.

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