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Pig-borne disease vaccine

BEIJING: People in southwest China affected by a pig-borne disease are expected to receive vaccines soon. According to experts with a team sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to the area, the vaccines for streptococcus swine type II, a bacteria carried by pigs, will soon be batch-produced in the Guangdong Province and are expected to reach Sichuan Province in about one week. A company in the province has already produced a small number of vaccines. Ning Yubao, member of the expert team and researcher with the Veterinarian Medicine Monitoring Institute, said the vaccine should help control the outbreak.

— Xinhua

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