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Stalls selling pork dishes suffer
Sun, May 03, 2009
The Straits Times

By Jessica Lim and Leow Si Wan

BUSINESS at stalls selling roasted pork and other pork dishes have taken a beating in this Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak.

Stall owners at 14 such stalls told The Straits Times that sales have dropped by between 10 to 50 per cent, despite repeated announcements by the authorities that the flu virus cannot be caught from eating pork.

This is also despite the World Health Organisation's renaming the flu Influenza A (H1N1), and explaining that the name 'swine flu' was inappropriate because the virus has genes from human, bird and pig viruses.

 

 

 

 


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