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'Wamena': in local language, [br]there is no name for this place.

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'Wam' means 'pig'.

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'Ena' is 'tame'.

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<i>From the feast where we roast the pig.</i>

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<i>From the mountain springs to the [br]mouth of the river,</i>

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<i>Smoke trails, making the heart long [br]to be there,</i>

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<i>in Wamena, around the fire we celebrate.</i>

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When the Dutch first arrived here, [br]they saw Father Enda's wife in a field.

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She was carrying a piglet in her hands.

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Then the Dutch asked, "What is it?"

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People here replied, [br]"Oh that's Wamena".

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The Dutch then proclaimed[br]"This area is called Wamena".

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We can't separate the pig [br]from human activities.

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It's not that pigs are equal to humans.

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No, 'Wam' is still 'Wam'. They are pigs.

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But the role of pigs and humans [br]is tied together,

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they are related to one another.

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People here have used pigs in almost [br]every ritual they have.

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Throughout the human life cycle,

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from when they are still inside[br]the womb as a foetus

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until their death, they'll use pigs.

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In times of marriage, death, [br]adat (indigenous ceremony) and illness

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When people were sick, they would kill a pig.

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They are important for everything.

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Many pigs began to die from 1995.

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That's when many pigs started dying.

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I had twenty-seven pigs.

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Twenty died and I have only [br]seven left now.

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When we found out the pigs had [br]Kondoyu disease, we felt hopeless.

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All in all, 40 pigs died.

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See that long house? It’s all empty[br]– all dead.

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I have only one pig left.

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We tried to nurture it until it gave [br]birth to many other pigs.

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We shared its kids with other neighbors, [br]so now we have got plenty.

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They are just piglets and newly born.

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A virus is the cause of this disease.

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When the virus infects the pigs, [br]it multiplies itself through the faeces.

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From faeces and every secretion, [br]from saliva,

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the virus infects other animals.

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The transmission period is fast.

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I tried really hard to save my animals.

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I willed and prayed.

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I went to get some medicine [br]from the government.

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They gave me this tiny bottle [br]for injection.

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I gave an injection to all the animals, [br]including the piglets.

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Usually we don't do this.

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The first step to handle this virus [br]is to vaccinate your pigs.

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The second step is to gather all [br]your animals in one stall,

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so you can contain this disease.

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So, even if one gets infected, it does [br]not spread to the other pigs.

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Thirdly, if animals in one stall are [br]infected with this disease,

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we can reduce the effect [br]by spraying disinfectant.

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I bought a syringe. I bought it [br]myself at the drug store.

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Whenever we took our animals [br]to the government clinic,

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they gave our animals an injection, [br]but we had to pay.

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We thought that the government [br]would help us for free.

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After doing that several times, we [br]finally started doing it ourselves.

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But still the pigs died.

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So, we tried other options.

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We bought penicillin and other [br]drugs at the drug store

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and we injected the animals.

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After that the pigs were fine.

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So, we thought maybe this [br]government help

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didn’t suit our animals.

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If many members of society [br]complete the vaccinations,

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I'm confident that we can control [br]this disease.

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The government never comes to the [br]villages to conduct surveys

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about who owns animals.

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They have never done that.

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So, they don’t have any information [br]about this.

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If they start consulting, maybe they can help us.

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They have never done that in my village,

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so they don't really know, actually.

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When their animals get sick, [br]people often look to adat ways.

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They don’t look for modern medicine.

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The most that they will do is give tetra [br](an antibiotic for human) to their pigs.

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Is that helping? [br]It creates more disease.

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So, I think the government pays very [br]little attention to us.