Tuning into The Today Show a few days ago, you may have seen Dr. Nancy Snyderman buying pork at her local butcher. Wha’happen? you may have thought. Why is the eminently trustworthy good doctor dining on the razor’s edge?

Folks, relax. Stay calm and carry on. Listen, if it makes you feel better, go wacko Jacko and wear a paint mask on the bus. Goop on the Purell. Stay home from work if your throat feels irritable and catch up on General Hospital. But most of all, remember: this, too, shall pass.

The media gets us amped to the hilt on the latest threat, and while it’s good to be aware, paranoia actually weakens your immunity. They know this in Mexico, and they also know that you cannot contract this beeyotch from eating pork.

With swine comes wine. Is there any meat harder to duplicate? Rattlesnake tastes like chicken, duck and pheasant are comparable…but bacon? Chops? Pork loin? It’s its own superlative animal.

This year, celebrate the indomitable Mexican spirit even after Cinco de Mayo by corralling some amigas and ordering some tacos de puerco or cooking a delicious pork loin, and pouring a similarly juicy pinot noir like a 2006 Ayana from Cali’s Central Coast. ‘Cause that used to be Mexico, too, and they’ve been more than gracious over their recent run of hard luck.