Swine Flu in Egypt; Panic or foresight?

Egyptian officials are being unusually zealous in their battle for public health

EGYPTIANS blame their government for many things, but they cannot say it has failed to rise to the threat of swine flu. In May it ordered the mass slaughter of Egypt’s 200,000-odd pigs. Since the summer, masked health officials have screened the country’s airports, hauling some 800 feverish-looking visitors off to quarantine on arrival. In August the government banned anyone under 25 or over 60 from making the pilgrimage to Mecca, in a bid to keep the more vulnerable safe at home.

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