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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

3,323 dead pigs and more


Shanghai Huangpu River upstream river the dead pigs flocks, as of yesterday afternoon, has been gradually salvage 3,323 dead pigs and more, like this was detected porcine circovirus. To avoid affecting drinking water at present, Shanghai has been launched water supply contingency plans, and water from the upper reaches of the Huangpu River water source of water supply enterprises (accounting for 22% of the city's raw water) to strengthen water quality monitoring.
According to the survey, since the beginning of March, the upper reaches of the Huangpu River, Shanghai, there is a dead pig floating phenomenon. 8 the HengLiaoJing reach still only found dozens of dead pigs. 9th surfaced dead pig suddenly jump up to nearly a thousand head, and continue to have a dead pig from upstream Zhejiang direction of drift. The water sector in Shanghai yesterday disclosed that, as of 15:00 yesterday, Songjiang waters of salvage dead pig 3,323 head. To salvage the dead pigs during the disinfection treatment, has been in place buried or sent to incineration Station.
Shanghai started the water supply contingency plans
 After the incident, the Shanghai Animal Disease Control Center in conjunction with the animal epidemic control center in Songjiang District, the site collected dead pig's heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, lymph nodes, tonsils and other viscera samples of five sets. One of the samples were detected in porcine circovirus pathogen positive, the remaining samples were negative for all test items.  http://paper.wenweipo.com/2013/03/12/CH1303120080.htm