[Miranda_]

In any case, I heard on the radio that pork products are fine to eat as long as they're cooked all the way thru and people just keep to basic hygiene; ie, washing hands and utensils.

In any case, there's no need to have panic stations; the media tends to whip everyone into hysteria by exaggerating everything. They did the same with samonella, mad cow disease, bird flu; pretty much everything, acting as tho the disease was on a par with bubonic plague. -.-