Afghanistan's only known pig has been taken off display at Kabul Zoo and locked away to avoid panic among visitors who may be worried about swine flu. "We put the pig temporarily in his winter house under quarantine because of swine influenza," the zoo's director Aziz Gul Saqib said. "Most people don't have much knowledge about swine influenza and seeing a pig, they panic that they will be infected.
The interned animal - known simply as "Pig" - was one of two given to Afghanistan by China in 2002, months after the ouster of the hardline Taliban regime, to help re-establish the zoo after it was destroyed during civil war. The zoo's other pig - and their offspring - had been killed in an earlier attack by a bear.
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