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**Pete** · 09-20-2009, 04:01

Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/wo...airo.html?_r=1

"........When health officials worldwide said that the virus was not being passed by pigs, the Egyptian government said that the cull was no longer about the flu, but was about cleaning up the zabaleen’s crowded, filthy, neighborhood.

That was in May.

Today the streets of the zabaleen community are as packed with stinking trash and as clouded with flies as ever before. But the zabaleen have done exactly what they said they would do: they stopped taking care of most of the organic waste. ............."

09-20-2009, 04:01	#1
Pete Quiet Professional Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Fayetteville Posts: 13,080	Zabaleen & clean streets Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/wo...airo.html?_r=1 "........When health officials worldwide said that the virus was not being passed by pigs, the Egyptian government said that the cull was no longer about the flu, but was about cleaning up the zabaleen’s crowded, filthy, neighborhood. That was in May. Today the streets of the zabaleen community are as packed with stinking trash and as clouded with flies as ever before. But the zabaleen have done exactly what they said they would do: they stopped taking care of most of the organic waste. ............."
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