Swine flu
I guess it was predictable. Yes, in case you didn't know, some people say the virus will devastate the pig-gobbling-West. Yankee infidels will be doomed, and the faithful spared.
Even in Egypt, which hasn't reported a single case of swine flu, over 300,000 pigs were killed.
Swine flu is one of scores of diseases that have evolved from other life forms to humans. Look up zoonosis. Some fanatics clearly don't heed the call to read or to track developments in the epidemic that they are otherwise obsessed with; they don't or won't understand that the latest information suggests that we are more likely to contract swine flu from another human than a pig. This far, there isn't a single confirmed pig to human transmission (see FAQs for swine flu on www.who.int).
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