The Lebanese are told to kiss their kiss on the cheek greeting goodbye. As Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh put it, “If you visit someone, don’t exchange kisses… Let’s stop the social kissing habit.”
The Egyptian government takes U.N.’s “it has nothing to do with pigs” advice to heart by ordering the slaughter of all of the country’s 300,000 pigs.
Not to be outdone by the neighbors, Yakov Litzman, member of Israel’s United Torah Judaism party, had the bright idea to rename the influenza as “Mexican flu” because pigs are not kosher. The Mexicans were not at all offended.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden tried to make amends for his advice not to travel in “confined places” by taking a train back home to Delaware. Yes, but did he ride with a little cute piglet on his lap?
