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Egyptian authorities have begun in earnest the slaughter of 300,000 pigs, in what was originally described as a precaution against swine flu.

Officials now say the move is a general health measure aimed at restoring order to Egypt's pig-rearing industry.

The move has been widely criticised and the World Health Organisation says there is no evidence that pigs are transmitting the virus to humans.

Experts also point out that the flu cannot be caught from eating pig meat.

Pig-farming and consumption is limited to Egypt's Christian minority, estimated at 10% of the population.

Farmers clashed with health officials in at least one incident north of Cairo, and the BBC's Christian Fraser in Cairo says there have been noisy church meetings across the country.

Compensation pledge

Cairo governor Abdel Halim Wazir told Egyptian news agency Mena that the government would start slaughtering some 60,000 pigs raised by rubbish collectors in a city slum.

The pigs are generally fed in back yards on what their owners cannot recycle.

(circa 1966) is a former Argentine television journalist and currently a businesswoman from Buenos Aries who reportedly works for Bunge y Born, an international agribusiness company.

Background

Chapur attended the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and earned a degree in political science. She worked as a translator and correspondent in 2001 for Canal América 2, an Argentine television station, and filed television news reports for the station's New York City bureau in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. She currently works for Bunge y Born.

Chapur has two teenage sons and is currently divorced. She is described as a brunette who exercises regularly and has participated in at least two 10 km races.

Terra Argentina reports that Chapur speaks English, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. She met a trade delegation in 2008 which included representatives from South Carolina touring Brazil and Argentina on a trip sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Alleged ...

Following her identification by La Nación, a Buenos Aires newspaper, The State (Columbia, South Carolina) reported that the woman would, in fact, be Ms. Chapur. The State reported that Chapur makes semi-regular visits to New York. Governor Sanford stated that he knew an Argentine woman, identified by others as Chapur, for eight years, though he specified that the relationship did not become physical until a 2007 trip to Argentina, where Sanford met with the Governor of Buenos Aires and the local business community. Sanford's wife discovered this five months before Sanford's public confession, but did not release this information to the public. Ms. Chapur, in a statement made to C5N (in Buenos Aires), confirmed the relationship, but refused to discuss the matter in detail - pointing out that e-mails between her and Sanford made public days on June 24 were a result of having had her computer hacked.

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