Afghanistan's only pig quarantined

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's only pig has just gotten a little more lonely.

The Kabul Zoo, home to Khanzir -- which means "pig" in Pashtu -- decided to quarantine the pig after visitors expressed fears of swine flu, according to BBC News.

Khanzir is the country's only pig because Afghanistan doesn't allow pork products in its country. The pig was given to the zoo by China in 2002 and has been one of the zoo's more curious animals.

Zoo director Aziz Gul Saqib said the pig is healthy. "The only reason we moved him was because Afghan people don't have a lot of knowledge about swine flu, and so when they see a pig they get worried and think they will get ill."

Fear has gripped nations worldwide in the wake of the swine flu outbreak. In Egypt an estimated 300,000 pigs were killed . In 2006 the country also killed 25 million birds in a matter of weeks in response to the bird flu.