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China Sees Control of Pig Diseas
By Jerilyn Watson
2007-8-27
2007-8-27
Vietnam also has reported recent cases of blue-ear disease.
The disease causes reproductive failure in female pigs and breathing difficulties in young pigs. Older pigs may also be affected. Signs of the disease can include high fever and cases of pneumonia. Pigs weakened by the virus are more likely to get bacterial infections.
The agency says the disease does not seem to affect animals other than pigs. Experts say they do not know of any cases of humans who have gotten the pig disease.
An Agriculture Ministry official said the outbreak involves a form of the virus that is unusually deadly to pigs.
The government of China says much progress has been made in efforts to control the spread of blue-ear pig disease. Government officials said last week that forty-seven thousand pigs were infected in July. That was down more than fifty percent from the number reported for June.
And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. For more stories about agriculture, go to WWW.51VOA.COM. I'm Faith Lapidus.
An outbreak of infectious disease killed as many as one million pigs in China last year. China's top veterinary health official said this past June that blue-ear disease was the cause of most of those deaths. China reported the outbreak to the World Organization for Animal Health last September.
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
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