Mysterious Disease has Killed Thousands of Pigs in China
According to media reports a mysterious disease has killed thousands of pigs in China’s southern Guangdong province, and has been identified as a strain of “blue ear disease,” state media said.
The official Xinhua News Agency said that an effective vaccine has already been developed and authorities will start to administer it to pigs in Guangdong province “soon”.
It said blue ear disease spread to China in the mid-1990s. The recent outbreak was a caused by a new mutation.
Blue ear disease is also known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome or PRRS, and was first identified in the United States in 1987, according to the website of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Although the cause of the disease is unknown experts have dismissed the possibility of people contracting the disease.
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