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Egypt orders foreign schools closed over swine flu
Image by khowaga1 via Flickr Egypt has ordered foreign schools and universities to close until October 3 over worries about swine flu, with local schools having already been told to delay opening until then, a health ministry official said on Wednesday. Egyptian universities and schools had been set to begin their academic year the last week... »
The plight of the Zabaleen
The garbage collectors of Cairo live in neighborhoods spilling over with trash. The children play with the trash and in the trash, when they are not helping to sort or collect the trash. The women sit right in the trash, picking out rotten food with their hands and tossing it to their pigs, which... »
More re "Pharaonic decree" to kill 300,000 pigs
Egypt has begun forcibly slaughtering the country’s pig herds as a precaution against swine flu, a move that the United Nations described as “a real mistake” and one that is prompting anger among the country’s pig farmers. According to World Health Organization officials, the decision to kill pigs has no scientific basis. The outbreak has... »
All pigs to be killed in Egypt
Even though no case of swine flu has been yet reported, the Egyptian Health Ministry has just ordered the slaughtering of all pigs (about 300,000) in the country as a preventive measure. Pigs are raised in Egypt for consumption by the Christian Copts, about 10% of the population. Muslims do not eat pork meat. Despite the... »
