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China moved quickly this week to ban hog and pork imports from Mexico and parts of the United States the Chinese agriculture ministry and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Perhaps confused by the facts, the Minister of Agriculture apparently thought that swine flu was being passed from pigs to humans.  When questioned by reporters that asked why he wasn’t listening to world health authorities that report that all swine flu cases have involved human-to-human transmission the Minister covered his ears and began singing loudly.

All transmission of the disease so far appears to have been human-to-human and not from animal or other contact, according to the WHO. “There is no danger from eating pork,” a WHO spokesman said. “If you cook pork well, if you cook all meat well, it kills all virus.”