Pondering vexing issues in infection prevention and control
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Drowning in swine flu garbage (literally)
Remember when Egyptian authorities, spurred on by pandemic hysteria, made the misguided decision to kill all that nation’s pigs? Turns out those pigs processed (i.e. ate) most of Cairo’s organic waste! Without the pigs to eat it, that waste is now piling up in rotting, stinking heaps.
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