Afghanistan Has A Pig!

[Are_grits_groceries]

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.

"For now the pig is under quarantine, we built it a room because of swine influenza," Aziz Gul Saqib, director of Kabul Zoo, told Reuters. "We've done this because people are worried about getting the flu."
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The pig was a gift to the zoo from China, which itself quarantined some 70 Mexicans, 26 Canadians and four Americans in the past week, but later released them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5444XQ20090505

That's all folks....

[ShortnFiery]

1. And The Beat Goes On ...

:crazy:

[ensho]

2. at least Afghanistan doesn't have huge pig shit ponds to worry about

hope their only pig continues to live a peaceful life.

(shit ponds are not the pigs fault)

[Cyrano]

3. At least they locked it in a room. Ours was turned loose for eight years

and look at where we are now.

[JVS]

4. Wouldn't being the only pig in the country already be an effective quarantine?

Where would the pig have gotten the flu from if he's all alone?