An Egyptian Health worker sprays chemicals to disinfect a local pigs farm in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian health authorities are examining about 350,000 pigs being raised in Cairo and other provinces for swine flu.

Topeka ? Kansas’ top emergency management official says a shipment of swine flu treatments should be arriving in the state in the next few days.

Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting said the flu treatments will be part of a larger shipment from the federal government. Federal officials have authorized the release of flu-fighting drugs from the nation’s strategic stockpile because swine flu cases have been confirmed in at least five states, including Kansas.

Bunting, the state’s adjutant general, and noted that a disease pandemic is the most common scenario in training exercises in the past several years.

Bunting did not have more details about what will be in the packet from the government.

He said the materials will be shipped to Forbes Field, a former Air Force base south of Topeka.