1 Million Pigs to Be Destroyed
From Times Wire Reports
More than a million pigs, three times the number previously planned, will have to be destroyed to control the outbreak of a pig-borne virus that has killed 63 people. Officials of a national task force fighting the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis said the additional 700,000 to 800,000 animals come from a zone that is worst-hit by the virus. Ling Liong Sik, deputy head of the task force, said that some of the animals in the zone are healthy but that they have to be sacrificed to save an estimated 1.7 million pigs in the rest of Malaysia.
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