A radio station in Turkmenistan is opposing health officials who are trying to give a new name to what is now known as the "swine flu" virus.
Classic Hits H1N1 in Turkmenistan's third largest city, Merf-Kreffin, claims that the use of H1N1 to label the malady will harm the station's public image, and is an infringement on rigid Turkmenistan copyright laws.
The World Health Organization has begun referring to the virus as "H1N1" instead of "swine flu" to avoid damaging the pork industry.
Too poor for payoffs
Station H1N1 GM Orshvit Hydroplen told All The Excess!, "Please, we beg of you, we're a poor country, we can't afford lawyers and bribery. We must keep our station name pure and free of illness. So apologies to you pigs, but please, keep calling it swine flu! Or anything else!"
Ironically, station H1N1 had just begun a huge multi-media campaign with billboards all over metro Merf-Kreffin and expensive television commercials airing in the Turkmenistanian hit series, "Achtipez Vert mit Ryan Seacrest."
