We are not affected at all by this disease. We are not selling hamburgers, we are selling quality, said Lotfy. Zaki Sayed Mahmoud, a butcher in Helmeya, Old Cairo, said We feed our cows Egyptian food, and the infection comes from the imported cow food. The number of his customers has been adversely affected. Mahmoud said be phones his customers regularly to explain that the infection comes from frozen imported meat.
AUCian opinions are mixed.
I stopped eating meat for awhile, and when I did, it was only home made, said Mariam Mourad, business junior. Shaimaa Abdel Aziz, computer science graduate, said, I am being overcautious with meat after the incidence of this disease, and so I stopped eating meat in restaurants and hotels.