Bringing Home the Bacon

Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.

"For now the pig is under quarantine, we built it a room because of swine influenza," Aziz Gul Saqib, director of Kabul Zoo, told Reuters. "We've done this because people are worried about getting the flu."

There are no pig farms in Afghanistan and no direct civilian flights between Kabul and Mexico.

The pig was a gift to the zoo from China, which itself quarantined some 70 Mexicans, 26 Canadians and four Americans in the past week, but later released them.

No! You will not look upon our pig, infidel! You look upon our pig, we keel you! It is in its room! Its room that we built!