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Virus-Wary Egypt to Destroy All 300K Pigs

USDA says American pork is safe; Russia, China ban imports

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 29, 2009 9:16 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Egyptian government says it will immediately slaughter the country’s entire population of 300,000 pigs to protect against the swine flu, the AP reports. Egypt has stressed that it has no reported cases of the virus, though two infections have been confirmed in...   Read full story »

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