Title: WHO Probes Deadliness of China's Pig-Borne Disease
Abstract: INFECTIOUS DISEASESInternational 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 China's 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.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-08-26
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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