ABHIRUKT N. SAPRU

LOS ANGELES- The newest mutated form of the H1N1 flu virus has had a bizarre effect on one female student at the University of Southern California. Janice Odwallan, a member of one of the school’s better-known Greek sororities, has transformed into a rare breed of pig.

20 year-old Odwallan, now nicknamed Babe, has turned into the ‘Sus ahoenobarbus’ species, more commonly known as the Palawan Bearded Pig. This variety is indigenous to the Balabac, Palawan, and the Calamian islands in the Philippines and is almost impossible to find out of their natural surroundings.

“It was so sudden,” said Michelle Weightman, one of Odwallan’s sorority pledge sisters and self-proclaimed ‘BFF,” “Her face started changing, then her body, and in a matter of days she had become a full fledged boar!”

Several other girls living in the sorority house have begun to display signs of swine-like features, with sprouting whiskers and growing snouts being the two most common early symptoms. The house has been put under quarantine as per WHO guidelines and an internal memorial service will be held at the house this week in memory of Odwallan’s human life.