1.   Authorities there considered having the pigs destroyed before an owner of potbellied pigs in Metairie, La., found a haven for them at the Wild Animal Orphanage here.

2.   Several hundred research pigs were destroyed.

3.   A Cabinet task force on the epidemic may resort to electrocution to destroy pigs in infected areas, the Minister of Transport Ling Liong Sik told the news agency.

4.   Authorities have ordered farmers in the affected areas of western Malaysia to destroy their pigs.

5.   Health officials in the Malaysian state of Johor began destroying pigs Wednesday that they believe are infected with the deadly Nipah virus, the national news agency Bernama reported.

6.   The authorities have also decided to destroy infected pigs and impose a quarantine to prevent them being moved to other areas.