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 | A worker cleans slaughtered pigs at a pork workshop of Chunyuan Food Co. Ltd. in Qionglai in Chengdu of southwest China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, July 24 2007. Nearly 90,000 pigs have died or been slaughtered because of blue pig disease, an Ministry of Agriculture official said Wednesday, part of the cause of a spike in pork prices. The epidemic has now spread to 25 provinces or regions, said Li Jinxiang, a veterinarian with the ministry. click to open  |  | Workers arrange pork meat at a pork workshop of Chunyuan Food Co. Ltd. in Qionglai in Chengdu of southwest China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, July 24 2007. Nearly 90,000 pigs have died or been slaughtered because of blue pig disease, an Ministry of Agriculture official said Wednesday, part of the cause of a spike in pork prices. The epidemic has now spread to 25 provinces or regions, said Li Jinxiang, a veterinarian with the ministry. click to open |
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