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Egypt to slaughter its pigs to stop swine flu

Global Arab Network - - Adam Turner

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:02

According to an Associate Press report, Egypt is setting about slaughtering all of its pigs to stop the swine flu. Egypt's Health Ministry is denying that there have been any cases of the swine flu in humans there. Yet, they are going to kill all of their 300,000 pigs.

Saber Abdel Aziz Galal, from Egypt's agriculture ministry, said that the authorities had called as early as 2006, when bird flu arrived in Egypt, for pigs to be kept separate from birds as well as humans.

"The only contact should be with the worker caring for them (pigs), not as in the current situation where there are no precautionary measures," Galal told (AFP).

"Pigs congregate with humans in these places, it is a very strange environment. They are not kept in farms," he said, adding that his ministry would continue to "monitor and examine" the nation's pigs.

MENA also reported that a pig abattoir in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria had already been shut down "as part of precautionary measures" against swine flu.

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