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Newborn pigs walk through a garbage dump in an Old Cairo slum
Monday, Sep. 21, 2009

Open quoteNow there are no pigs, so it goes to the administration.Close quote

  • MOUSSA RATEB,
  • a former Cairo garbage collector, on removing waste in the city; the Egyptian government killed the nation's pigs in an attempt to prevent the spread of swine flu, removing a major consumer of Cairo's trash
Photo: Khaled Desouki / Afp / Getty Images | Source: NEW YORK TIMES