Mad cow Vs Swine Flu

It's the clash of the titans !

Mad Cow aka "Creutzfeldt-Jakob"

versus

Cavia porcellus aka "Swine Flu"

Just kidding..... Cavia porcellus is not the scientific name for Swine flu. Cavia porcellus is the scientific name for guinea pig.

Actually, I didn't have any pictures of pigs ready on my desktop, so I thought I'll use this opportunity to show off my cute little Cavia porcellus, which are not pigs of course, but luckily for me, also not health hazardous.

On a more serious note, the results so far:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 188,579 cases worldwide

Death toll: 1 person per 1,000,000 in the US (Source: CDC)

Swine flu: More than 1,674 reported cases to date worldwide (Source: CDC)
Death toll: over 100 persons to date

I think I'll have to give Round 1 to Swine influenza.

Be careful, stay away from pork and Mexico....for the time being.

Funny thing is, there were many laughing cows since the outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jakob. I wonder why.

Laughing cow