16,000 Pigs Floating Plus 1,000 Dead Ducks Down Chinese River of Huangpu

dead-pigsFrom hundreds to thousands! According to the recent count, 16,000 pigs were found floating down the Chinese Huangpu river. “The city’s water territory has already basically finished the work of fishing out the floating dead pigs,” said a Shanghai government statement released late on Sunday.

Jiaxing in neighbouring Zhejiang province, whose farmers are accused by Shanghai of dumping the dead pigs into the river upstream, had found 5,528 carcasses, state radio said last week.

Related: Dead Pigs In River Shanghai Removed (VIDEO)

In addition to the dead pigs, 1,000 thousand dead ducks were also found floating in a river.

The cause of death of both the ducks and pigs remains a mystery although officials in both cases say that drinking water remains safe for human consumption.

Samples of the dead pigs have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans.

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