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China educates farmers on pig-borne disease
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-07-30 11:33
Sichuan province in southwestern China has launched a campaign to educate
farmers to take precautions against a pig-borne disease which has killed 32
people and infected 163, Reuters reported.
About 50,000 health workers and officials have been sent to the Ziyang area
to inspect and register every pig, state edia said, and they have set up 39
temporary roadside quarantine stations to stop dead pigs from reaching markets.
The affected areas have been sealed off, human and vehicle traffic strictly
controlled, and the government has urged scientists to work on a vaccine for the
disease, Agriculture Minister Du Qinglin has said.
Authorities say victims were suffering from Streptococcus suis bacteria, an
infection contracted from slaughtering, handling or eating infected pigs.
The disease, first reported in Ziyang and nearby Neijiang, has spread to
Chengdu itself and four other cities in Sichuan and one case has been reported
in the southern province of Guangdong near Hong Kong.
Sichuan, the country's top pork-producing province, has been forced to
suspend all exports of chilled and frozen pork from Ziyang and Neijiang to Hong
Kong.
Pork is China's favourite meat and the country consumes more of it than
anywhere else in the world.
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