ISSUE 1
Feb. 8, 2004



Swine may be carriers of bird flu

Feb. 8, 2004
Associated Press

ROME - U.N. experts sought to dampen fears Friday that bird flu had spread to another species after tests found the virus in the snouts of pigs in Vietnam.

Due to this find, the U.N. and Vietnamese experts have decided that all poultry and swine are to be housed in separate structures to prevent them from performing oral sex on each other.

"We always knew pigs were filthy animals," said Mingh Nyguyen, a Vietnamese livestock inspector. "We just didn't realize that they were that pathetic; that they would have oral sex outside of their own species. The next thing you know they'll be mating and we'll wind up with chicken that tastes like bacon, or bacon that tastes like chicken."

"That's completely unacceptable," agreed a U.N. expert on condition of anonymity.

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