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[Briansol]

Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear | Lifestyle | Reuters

 

[Kanned]

bahahahaha, I wonder how this same concept worked during the bird flu epidemic.

 

[klyph]

If there's only one, how's it gonna get the flu? I didn't think it transferred from Human-Pig.

 

[Briansol]

it can be.

 

[hondarin]

"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."

that made me chuckle.

 

[Drake]

The Saudi's started to slaughter all of their pigs last week. And I am pretty sure that a Canadian pig wrangler infected one of his pigs with H1N1 earlier this week.

 

[klyph]

The Saudi's started to slaughter all of their pigs last week. And I am pretty sure that a Canadian pig wrangler infected one of his pigs with H1N1 earlier this week.

I had no idea it could be sexually transmitted.

 

[Drake]

I had no idea it could be sexually transmitted.

See you learn something new every day!

 

[double0Si]

I had no idea it could be sexually transmitted.

That was the first thing I said when the story broke (jokingly of course) except it was more along the lines of "who porked the pig?!"