Reporters Barred From Disease Outbreak Area
Chinese authorities have banned local reporters from visiting areas where an outbreak of a pig-borne disease has killed 34 farmers, ordering newspapers to use dispatches from the state news agency, a Hong Kong newspaper reported.
Officials have reported 181 confirmed or suspected cases linked to the bacteria Streptococcus suis in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. Symptoms include nausea, fever, vomiting, and bleeding under the skin.
Sichuan authorities have ordered local journalists to stay away from locations where the disease has surfaced, and told newspapers to carry only stories as issued by the official New China News Agency, a Hong Kong paper reported.
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