It replaces the traditional pseudo-Napoleonic styling with a cartoony but innoffensive world of battling pigs, cats, zombies and humans.

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Since then, scientists around the world have created cloned mice, cows, pigs and dogs.

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The World Organization for Animal Heath reported in January that Chinese authorities culled 948 pigs in southern Guangdong Province after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease there.

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Egypt has ordered the nation's quarter of a million pigs to be slaughtered over swine flu fears, in the first such move in the world, even though experts say the virus cannot be transmitted by eating meat.

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The H7N9 virus, previously known only to infect birds, appears to have mutated so that it can more easily jump to animals like pigs, meaning the range of potential hosts has expanded, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing a World Health Organization scientist studying the virus's genetic makeup.

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