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 | A Chinese woman (L) displays pork that her husband had chopped, at a market in Beijing, August 3, 2005. China, which came under fire for covering the SARS outbreak two years ago, has vowed to punish officials who falsify or delay reports on a deadly swine flu that has infected 205 people and killed 37 in Sichuan province, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health on Tuesday. click to open  |  | A Chinese woman (L) displays pork that her husband had chopped, at a market in China's capital Beijing, August 3, 2005. China, which came under fire for covering the SARS outbreak two years ago, has vowed to punish officials who falsify or delay reports on a deadly swine flu that has infected 205 people and killed 37 in Sichuan province, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health on Tuesday. click to open  |  | A Chinese woman shouts the price of pork at a market in China's capital Beijing, August 3, 2005. China, which came under fire for covering the SARS outbreak two years ago, has vowed to punish officials who falsify or delay reports on a deadly swine flu that has infected 205 people and killed 37 in Sichuan province, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health on Tuesday. click to open  |  | A shopkeeper arranges a pig's head for display in her stall which sells pork at a Beijing meat market Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2004. Authorities in China's capital have confiscated thousands of tons of pork from areas infected by a pig disease, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. Some 37 farmers, all who butchered or handled sick swine in southwestern Sichuan province, have died in an outbreak blamed on streptococcus suis, a pig-borne bacteria. click to open  |  | A pig looks out from his pigsty as he stands on his hind legs at a small private pig farm in Lang Fang, outside of Beijing in the Hebei district Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Authorities in China's capital have confiscated thousands of tons of pork from areas infected by a pig disease, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. Some 37 farmers, all who butchered or handled sick swine in southwestern Sichuan province, have died in an outbreak blamed on streptococcus suis, a pig-borne bacteria. click to open  |  | A pig lies on his side as its care taker looks on from outside of the pigsty in Lang Fang, outside of Beijing in the Hebei district Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Authorities in China's capital have confiscated thousands of tons of pork from areas infected by a pig disease, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. Some 37 farmers, all who butchered or handled sick swine in southwestern Sichuan province, have died in an outbreak blamed on streptococcus suis, a pig-borne bacteria. click to open  |  | Pigs sniff for food in heir pigsty as one of their care takers claims the animals have been vaccinated and are healthy at this small pig farm in Lang Fang, outside of Beijing in the Hebei district Wednesday Aug. 3, 2005. Authorities in China's capital have confiscated thousands of tons of pork from areas infected by a pig disease, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. Some 37 farmers, all who butchered or handled sick swine in southwestern Sichuan province, have died in an outbreak blamed on streptococcus suis, a pig-borne bacteria. click to open  |  | Chinese officials from the local animal quarantine department examine pork at a sausage factory in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, August 2, 2005. China's Commerce Industry urged officials on Wednesday not to block distribution of safe pork products nationwide, in an apparent bid to stop a slump in pork sales after a swine flu outbreak killed 37 people. click to open  |  | Chinese officials from the local animal quarantine department burn pork at a sausage factory in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, August 2, 2005. China's Commerce Industry urged officials on Wednesday not to block distribution of safe pork products nationwide, in an apparent bid to stop a slump in pork sales after a swine flu outbreak killed 37 people. click to open  |  | A Chinese vendor selling pig hooves waits for customers at a market in Beijing August 2, 2005. Many frugal farmers in southwest China are refusing to bury infected pigs safely, Chinese media said on Tuesday, raising fears that a deadly swine flu could spread further after infecting almost 200 people and killing 36. click to open  |
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