Death toll up; disease 'under control'
By Bao Daozu (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-29 06:01

Yang Weizhong, Director of the Office of Disease Control and Emergency Response of China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), made the remarks in Ziyang yesterday in a brief interview with journalists.

With a chart showing the epidemic in Ziyang to be in decline, Yang said he was still not sure when the epidemic would be over.

The epidemic situation seems to be very localized now, Robert Dietz, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO), was quoted as saying.

In South China's Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Yongshun Biology Pharmaceutical Factory is stepping up production of a vaccine to protect pigs against the disease, Wu Weirui, board chairman of the factory told China Daily yesterday.

A large amount of the vaccine, enough for at least 20 million pigs, will be sent to Sichuan by next Wednesday, he said.

Since the outbreak was discovered on June 24, Ziyang has done its utmost to prevent the spread of the disease, said Chen Nenggang, deputy mayor of Ziyang.

The city has issued more than 2 million posters urging farmers not to slaughter or eat sick pigs, the only ways humans can become infected.

At least 50,000 health workers and officials were sent to nearly 1.4 million farming households, to register every pig in the region, Chen said.

Ziyang also set up 39 temporary roadside quarantine stations to stop dead pigs from being transported to market, he added.

The Sichuan provincial government has designated four medical facilities in Ziyang, Neijiang, Zigong and Suining as treatment centres for farmers showing symptoms of the disease.

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