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| CHINA VIEW Pig bacteria blamed for 19 mysterious deaths
BEIJING, July 26 -- The mysterious deaths of 19 farmers in Southwest China's Sichuan Province were caused by Streptococcus suis, a bacteria carried by pigs, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. By noon on Sunday, 80 cases, 67 confirmed and 13 suspected, had been reported, according to a ministry statement. Since the disease was found in humans about one month ago, the bacteria has killed 19. At the moment 17 patients are in a critical condition in hospital. After an emergency investigation, a group of experts organized by the ministries of health and agriculture confirmed the epidemic was caused by the bacteria which can be passed to humans from pigs. Experts found that the farmers infected had all slaughtered or processed infected pigs. The official investigation result dispels concerns that the outbreak was avian influenza or SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). The cases were scattered among 75 villages in four districts of Ziyang and Neijiang cities. No human-to-human infection has been found, the ministry statement said, adding that the disease has a latency period of two to three days. Those infected develop acute symptoms such as high fever, listlessness, vomiting and bleeding from vessels beneath the skin. About half
of patients also go into severe shock, and the
death rate of the disease is quite high, investigating experts said. |
| From the "Authorized english
translation of Quran" by Rashad Khalifa: Only Four Foods Prohibited [16:115] He only prohibits for you
dead animals, blood, the meat of pigs,* and food which is dedicated to
other than GOD. If one is forced (to eat these), without being
deliberate or malicious, *16:115 & 118 The most devastating trichinosis parasite, Trichinella spiralis, (also the pork tapeworm Taenia solium) survives in the meat of pigs, not the fat. More than 150,000 people are infected annually in the United States. See 6:145-146, and Appendix 16. |