RINDERPEST EPIDEMICS SUBSIDE IN NORTH CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300251-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 251
• Publication Date: April 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION C0HFIDENTIePFIDENTIAL
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
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COUNTRY China
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1950
SUBJECT Economic
HOW
- Cattle epidemics
DATE DIST1 7
Apr 1950
PUBLISHED Daily ne
wspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Hong Kong
NO. OF PAGES 1
DATE
PUBLISHED
27, 28 Feb 1950
LANGUAGE
Chinese
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SUIYUAH, CHAHAR CHECK DISEASE -- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 27 Feb 50
Pei-ping, 27 February (Hsin-hua) -- The rinderpest epidemics in Suiyuan
and Chahar provinces have been checked or eliminated according to a responsible
Communist authority.
In late November 1949, a rinderpest epidemic broke out in Chi-ning, Feng-
chen, and four other hsiens, and in Cheng-hung, Cheng-huang, and Cheng-lan ban-
ners of Suiyuan Province. The epidemic affected some 900 head of cat$ae. The
provincial government immediately sent veterinarians to the affected areas to
combat the disease. In a little more than a month, they cured 113 affected
animals and gave preventive inoculations to 'i,206. The rinderpest epidemic in
Suiyuan has been checked.
In mid-January 1950, a similar epidemic started in several localities of
Yen-pei area of Chahar Province. During 13.- 31 January, veterinary personnel
cured 14,000 affected cattle and gave preventive inoculations to 300,000 agri-
cultural animals, thereby wiping out the rinderpest epidemic in that area.
SHANTUNG INOCULATES ANIMALS -- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 28 Feb 50
Pei-p'ing, 27 February (Hsin-hua) -- During the spring and autumn of 1950,
the Shantung Province People's government is planning to inoculate 1,100,000
animals to prevent anthrax. To complete this job, a plant producing animal
disease serum will be established to increase the production of anthrax'
vaccines.
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