The Threat of Sick Livestock

Posted by Matt in September 3rd, 2007

In the past year, a mysterious disease ravaged (BusinessWeek) Chinaâ€™s pig population, with a death toll that could be as high as a million pigs, causing a sharp rise in pork prices. Chinese officials have identified the illness as blue-ear pig disease, a porcine respiratory and reproductive ailment. Although the disease is not known to be transmittable to humans, Chinaâ€™s handling of the incident has drawn comparisons (Economist) to its handling of other animal-human outbreaks, including the deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, when the country denied there was a problem and at first declined requests for information. The Chinese government says there is no cover up and the situation is now under control. But it has yet to share animal tissue samples with international researchers, leading some global health experts to question (IHT) the diagnosis. Noting a similarly deadly outbreak in Vietnam, scientists fear that the disease may have mutated (Science) to a more dangerous form.

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