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Chinese to send Pig Sperm to outer space

category international | sci-tech | other press author Saturday July 23, 2005 15:39author by -

40 grammes of pig sperm from the rare Chinese breed Rong Chang will be sent into space on the Shenzou VI orbiter to be launched in October 2005.

This latest innovative and exciting experiment of the Chinese National Space Agency shall see studies on the effect of microgravity on sperm.

2 Chinese cosmonauts will be aboard the spacecraft.

http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/main_e.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4690651.stm

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17 Chinese farmers die from Pig bacteria.
author by -publication date Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:55author address author phone

17 farmers have died from a new disease found in the Sechuan province of China. Authorities have said it is neither SARS nor Bird Flu and most probably a bacterial infection from handling dead pigs.

The symptoms cannot be spread from human to human, and those most at risk from animal carcasses are people with vulnerable, low immune systems, officials said.

Experts had expressed fears that pigs, which can also carry human influenza, could accelerate mutation of the bird flu virus into a form, which can be transmitted between people.

The symptoms reported "seem consistent" with streptococcus suis, said Bob Dietz, a spokesman for the World Health Organization's Western Pacific region in Manila.

China has assured its pork market from Hong Kong to most of Asia that there is no risk posed by eating frozen Sechuan pig.
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http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/07/25/afx2153948.html
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/25/content_462910.htm
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/07/25/60676.html

Pigs in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE
author by TheMuppetsWereRightpublication date Mon Jul 25, 2005 20:23author address author phone

Even Indymedia seems to have a silly season for news.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71094

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