WHO Probes Deadliness of China's Pig-Borne Disease
- 26 August 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 309 (5739) , 1308-1309
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.309.5739.1308a
Abstract
International experts fear that a new, more virulent form of the bacterium Streptococcus suis could be responsible for killing 38 humans and more than 600 pigs in China9s central Sichuan Province over the past 2 months. But they are puzzled about how a rare--and rarely fatal--disease that usually appears in isolated cases among humans became so deadly and whether it might strike again.Keywords
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