Egypt orders immediate slaughter of all pigs

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The Egyptian Government in a very strange move… have ordered to slaughter all pigs in the country. All Scientific and Animal watch groups around the word, are in odds with the Egyptian government reasons for such a call.

Egypt orders immediate cull of all pigs

Health Minister says further precautionary measures against deadly virus will be introduced.
CAIRO - Egypt on Wednesday ordered the immediate cull of all pigs in the country to avoid any outbreak of the deadly swine flu, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali said.

“It has been ordered to immediately begin the slaughter of all herds of pigs in Egypt,” Gabali told reporters after a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.
He said slaughter houses were to begin the culling process on Wednesday at the fastest rate possible.

Further precautionary measures such as the launch of a widespread awareness campaign and an increase in the production of protective masks and anti-viral Tamiflu medicine would also be introduced, he said.

Egypt’s agriculture ministry says there are 250,000 pigs in the country, belonging to and eaten by the members of the Coptic Christian minority.

On Tuesday, Egypt’s lower house of parliament called for the slaughter of the country’s pigs amid fears over the spread of the swine flu.

The provocative move by the Egyptian Government, in reality is having aim towards the poor Christian' populations. The sole owners of all big’ farms in the country are the lower end of the Christian’s minority in Egypt. By ordering the saluter of all pigs’ in Egypt, the government will be depriving 1,000,000 poor people from their only source of income. This bizarre move, could only understood as an indirect financial attack on Christian minorities, under the cover of swine flu protections.

Egypt is the 1st country in the world ignoring all the scientific evidence and going ahead with the saluter process to protect the Egyptians ....from the
" swine flu"

In the latest news, the World Health Organisation are looking into changing the name of the latest health scare to avoid slaughtering million’s of pigs as a result of linking the virus to pigs.

Inaccurate 'swine' flu label
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/0...act/index.html
CNN - Health
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) --

The disease most people in the United States and worldwide know as "swine flu" is actually a combination of human and animal strains and has not been shown to be transmissible through eating pork.

"[This flu is being called something that it isn't, and it's hurting our entire industry," said Dave Warner, communications director for the National Pork Producers Council. "It is not a 'swine' flu, and people need to stop calling it that ... they're ruining people's lives.[/B"

]Swine Flu: Don't Blame the Pig
Time- Heath & Science By Jeffrey Kluger http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...0.html?cnn=yes

The problem begins with the wily nature of the influenza virus itself. It may be an uncomplicated thing, made up of nothing more than 10 proteins assembled into a genome that's simple even by microbiological standards, but that bare-bones genome is unusually flexible, with snap-in, snap-out gene segments that allow easy mutation and exchange of information with other viruses. That's the reason we need a new flu vaccine every year: by the time one flu season has ended and the next one begins, the virus has changed so much, it can simply shake off last year's shot. Compare that with, say, polio; the vaccine was perfected in 1955 and hasn't had to change much since.