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C.China on disease alert after rats invade
www.chinanews.cn 2007-07-12 10:02:28
(Source: Xinhua)
July 12 - Authorities are on the alert for possible disease outbreaks
after an estimated 2 billion rats chomped their way through crops in 22
counties around Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan Province.
Li Junhua, spokesman for the Hunan Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, said Wednesday work teams have been sent to three cities on
Dongting Lake -- Yueyang, Yiyang and Changde -- to help prevent outbreaks
of disease.
Li said there were no reports of disease caused by rats so far.
The Hunan health department on Wednesday ordered local authorities to
initiate a communication campaign.
More than 2.25 million rats -- about 90 tons of rodent �C have been
killed since June 21 in Yiyang, local authorities said.
Cao Zhiping, head of the Yiyang office of plant protection and
quarantine, said the dead rodents had been buried deep in the earth after
being sterilized with quicklime and hence would not cause disease.
In Lujiao town, Yueyang, dead mice were burnt and buried in high ground
so that they could not be carried away by flood waters and contaminate
the environment.
The estimated 2 billion rats invaded 22 counties around Dongting Lake
after their homes on islands in the lake were flooded.
The rats burrowed through dikes and spread out into cropland, devouring
crops along their route.
Local authorities in Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Junshan and Huarong are rushing
to build walls and dig ditches to keep the rats away from flood-control
dikes and cropland.
Poison has also been widely used to kill the mice but has already had
side effects. In Binhu village of Lujiao town, about one thousand cats
died after eating rats killed by poison.
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