They are looking for a mate but with swine flu
it may be awhile before he has company.
Posted on 05/07/2009 7:37:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Afghanistan's only known pig has been quarantined because of fears over swine flu, officials from Kabul Zoo say.
The pig, a curiosity in a country where pork products are illegal, lives at the zoo, where he had previously enjoyed grazing next to deer and goats.
However visitors expressed fears that the animal could be carrying the H1N1 virus and he was moved into isolation.
The director of the zoo, Aziz Gul Saqib, says the pig, whose name is Khanzir, is strong and healthy.
Speaking to the BBC World Service, Mr Saqib says: "The only reason we moved him was because Afghan people don't have a lot of knowledge about swine flu, and so when they see a pig they get worried and think they will get ill."
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It’s tough to be a pig in a Muslim country.
lucky he ain’t in NKorea.
Send him to Egypt, they will kill him.
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What a hulabaloo that created.. people love their pork.
Poor LITTLE pig...night all..:)
Pig discrimination!
I hear that regular application of KC Masterpiece kills H1N1. Also a temperature of 250 degrees for several hours.
Yeah, we are "saving" that place alright, by writing it a new constitution that puts the Koran and Sharia law above all other law.
All we are doing it teaching these primitive 7th barbarians how to be patient, play nice and learn how to pretend to be our friends until they get modern weapons and aircraft, so they can fight us better in the future with our own equipment and money.
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