Thu, 04 Aug 2005

Mystery pig germ baffles experts

Funny thing, just this morning I spotted an update on avian flu over at Secular Blasphemy. Now it appears that the Chinese have managed to mutate a swine virus as well - given their record of veterinary medicine in the avian flu epidemic, I think we're justified in getting seriously worried.

We're on the brink of Mother Nature's payback for decades of un-natural agricultural practices. And we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Experts on a strep germ that's sickening people and pigs in China are baffled by reports of 37 farmers suddenly falling ill, bleeding under the skin and dying -- all previously unheard of with the disease.

(link) [CNN]

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