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2005-08-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Anthrax hits China as pig disease festers

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-08-07 01:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 China is not having a good year, health-wise.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-07 04:12|| 2005-08-07 04:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Eee-yah. Man, this is scary stuff. And the Japanese Anthrax cover? Weird.

Livestock in the affected areas had been inoculated with anti-anthrax vaccine or culled and safely buried, it said. Local officials had carefully checked all local meat sales points and banned people from bringing sick animals to markets.

HAHAHA yeah right. Local officials did everything they were supposed to do. Uh-huh.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-08-07 04:54|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-08-07 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 And don't forget the corrupt government doctor/official who blackmarkets the vaccine to the farmers, who then cut the stuff lowering its effectiveness so that the disease survives and mutates into a resistant variety. Oh, joy.

I just hope that when it really get serious, we don't get that humanitarian crowd demanding we compromise our vaccines by shipping them into that Chinese circus.

Posted by Slock Phavilet4871 2005-08-07 08:25|| 2005-08-07 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Oink Oink !

Posted by Oztralian [aka] God Save The World 2005-08-07 11:38|| www.the-voice-clan.com]">[www.the-voice-clan.com] 2005-08-07 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Slock, that's a pretty nasty scenario. The trouble is that it's totally believable - and the outcome is going to be horrendous.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-08-07 14:37|| 2005-08-07 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I raised pigs as a 4H project in the early 1960's (yeah, I'm as old as dirt). It used to cost me about $8 to innoculate each pig with all the vaccines and antibiotics necessary to keep them safe and healthy. Surprisingly, the price today is only about $16 for the same innoculations. It cost even less to innoculate our two milk cows and the mule we used to plow our garden.

The problem in China is the same problem you have in any other controlled economy - the people raising livestock only do what they're told to do, and the government assumes that it will lose x percent any, so why waste money on expensive vaccines. Lives are cheap - nobody in government cares about the lives of the people. The result is stories like these.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-08-07 15:22|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-08-07 15:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Based on the SARS epidemic, doubling the death toll should be about right.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-08-07 19:04|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-08-07 19:04|| Front Page Top

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