Tuesday, May 15, 2007

An article about my country in the international news-Text Based Skill 2(Week 10)


Wow, my pig has died....wooo........
I am very much concerned about the invisible viruses which infect people and make people sick or even die. The SARS in 2003 that was firstly found in Guangdong Province in China, and then spread over Hong Kong left people a deep impression. This is a link to an article in the Washington Post. According to the report on the 10th of May, China's Agriculture Ministry has warned that a pig disease could spread over China in hot summer. So far, the so-called "blue ear" disease has killed at least 3,000 pigs. The blue ear disease was firstly found in the United States in 1987, and spread to China in the mid-1990s. There is no statistic which shows the total number of infected pigs in China, because many pigs are raised on small farms or by individual farmers. However, according to the Hong Kong media, about 1,300 pigs were believed to be infected by the disease. Fortunately, the disease does not affect people.(163 words)

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