PIG Cull A Mistake Says OIE

April 30th, 2009

The world’s paramount agency in the trade of farm animals on Thursday said culling pigs in the belief this would stop the spread of so-called swine flu was a mistake.

In a statement issued after Egypt declared it would slaughter all pigs in the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said culling “will not help to guard against public or animal health risks presented by this novel A/H1N1 influenza virus.”..