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To date, Swine Flu has killed over 80 in Mexico, while there are at least 20 confirmed cases in US and suspected cases in about 5 countries. Swine Flu is a respiratory disease affecting pigs that in caused by a strain of influenza – it has since mutated to combine with human and bird flu. The news on TV last night emphasised that it cannot be contracted through eating of pork. Now, we have heard of derogatory descriptions such as ‘pig-headed’ – which means to be ‘stubbornly stupid’…<\/p>\n
Looks like the tables of name-calling are turned. It’s incredibly obstinate and ignorant for humans not to realise that animal-based viruses usually mutate and spread because they are bred and ill-treated on massive scales – by humans themselves! No animal would become sick in new ways without reason. WHO (World Health Organisation) uses 6 phases of alert on the seriousness of spread of disease. The current is already 3, while that of a pandemic is 4! The last flu pandemic in 1968 killed about a million globally!<\/p>\n
History tends to repeat when we fail to learn from it. First, there was SARS, then there was Bird Flu. How many more rounds must we go through before we all wake up? The usual precautions in the press say to… avoid contact with persons with flu, avoid crowded places, observe good personal hygiene… But what about avoiding contact with pork(-eating) to reduce pig-breeding and mistreatment, what about avoiding rearing excess pigs in disease-prone crowded places for profiteering, and what about observing truly good human-livestock hygiene by not having anything to do with literally bloody carcasses? Bird Flu still might strike on its own, while there is Swine Flu now. What other reasons do we need to give up the demand to devour our two and four-legged friends?<\/p>\n
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