This is excellent!!!
"Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine
flu.
The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.
There are no pig farms in Afghanistan and no direct civilian flights between Kabul and Mexico.
"We understand that, but most people don't have enough knowledge. When they see the pig in the cage they get worried and think that they could get ill," the director of the zoo, Saqib said.
"
flu.
The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.
There are no pig farms in Afghanistan and no direct civilian flights between Kabul and Mexico.
"We understand that, but most people don't have enough knowledge. When they see the pig in the cage they get worried and think that they could get ill," the director of the zoo, Saqib said.
"(REUTERS)
The domestic pig was a gift to the zoo from China (!), which by the way usually gives away/lends pandas as good-will gifts to foreign countries. Hm, the choice of giving a Muslim country a pig is to say the least strange...
China itself recently because of the hysterics around the A/H1N1 flu virus, last week quarantined some 70 Mexicans, 26 Canadians and four Americans, some of them reportedly quarantined SOLELY on the grounds of their nationality (which is completely insane!).
The rest of the REUTERS article is exceptionally entertaining and very worth the reading.
The pictures are excellent!
Human stupidity and insanity really have no limits!
Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear
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