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Death toll up; disease 'under control'
By Bao Daozu (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-29 06:01

Although prevention work is going well, treatment is still unsatisfactory because there is no specific medicine available to treat the infection.

While confirming the effectiveness of antibiotics against streptococcus suis, Yang Weizhong had reservations over the after-effects of the large doses, currently the only option for treating the disease.

"The small number of patients released from hospital so far showed no negative after-effects," Yang said.

Wang Xingcheng, 55, is one of at least 30 patients receiving treatment at the Department of Contagious Disease in the Ziyang City No 1 People's Hospital.

According to his daughter, Wang, who has been in hospital for around a week, lost his hearing and still cannot stand up because of back pain caused by the disease.

In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, York Chow, the SAR government's Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food, said there was no scientific evidence that pork from Sichuan was unsafe.

Accordingly, he refused to impose an import ban, saying: "The decision by the Ministry of Commerce to cease pork exports to Hong Kong is a commercial one.

"They make the decision because Hong Kong people are panicking and will not eat frozen pork from Sichuan," he told a Legislative Council panel yesterday.

In another development, Chinese scientists have completed genetic sequencing of the bacteria.

The gene sequencing test shows the bacteria has exactly the same sequence in sick pigs as in humans, said Xu Jianguo, an epidemic prevention expert with CDC.
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