Dying Guangdong pigs worry the world

A mysterious disease is killing Guangdong pigs at least by the hundreds and the authorities have been celebrating their May holiday, not giving any information, writes the New York Times. In a scenario that looks very similar to that in 2003 when SARS hit the world.

officials in Hong Kong, at the World Health Organization and at the Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday that they had been told almost nothing about the latest pig deaths and that they had been given limited details about the apparently unrelated problem of wheat gluten contamination.

Chinese media have not been reporting about the issue, as far as I could notice.