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To be honest, zookeepers feared that citizens might harm the pig. However, H1N1 is spread from person-to-person contact; it isn't spread by pigs.
Zoo manager Aziz Gul Saqib said:
"Our people did not understand that the disease only passes from person to person and felt that the swine influenza might even be spread from the zoo because we have a pig here.
"Other zoos abroad told us not to worry ... when people began to realize the disease doesn't come from the pig itself we decided to release the pig."
The only pig in Afghanistan is named "Khanzir" — Pashto for pig.
Posted July 11th, 2009 by Michael Santo
