"The Philippines' health department urged people to avoid kissing and hugging in public." (Source)
"Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who resisted the move and demanded compensation." (Maybe kill all pigs is code for something else?) (Source)
"China, Russia and South Korea banned imports of some North American pork, despite assurances that the flu is not spread through meat. " (Source)
And of course no one talks about the regular flu, which has killed 13,000 people so far this year (Source)
