A little alternative medicine pedantry comin at ya.

2009 is year of the Ox. 2008 year of Rat. 2007 year of pig or more accurately Boar.

So the there is no correlation of Chinese calendar animals to names given to illness.

For example mixamatosis outbreak was in 2007 and 2008, neither of which were year of rabbit.


Now don't we all feel better knowing this?