Beijing launches new anti-pest campaign

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Reducing Beijing's rats, flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches has been placed "at the top of the agenda" by the city's pest-control experts to ensure no outbreaks during the Olympic Games, state media reported on Thursday.

Beijing was confident of preventing and controlling outbreaks of pests during the Games, having hired U.S. experts and set up a "citywide surveillance network", Zeng Xiaotong, a disease control official under China's Ministry of Health, told the China Daily.

"Since 2005, the Beijing Loving-Motherland Sanitation Movement Committee has called on sanitation workers and Beijing residents to kill pests and improve hygiene," Zeng said. "These efforts have broadly paid off," he said.

Zeng said Beijing's major mosquito species was the same kind that caused a West Nile Virus outbreak that infected thousands of people and killed hundreds in the United States in 1999.


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[tom_paine]

1. First they killed off all the cats, now because there are no cats to control rats

they gotta kill off the rats.

And all of this for an overhyped commercial venture that lost any meaning beyond the hamburger wrapper years ago.

China has to pretend that Beijing isn't the most polluted in the world. The Imperial Amerikan Corporations who need to sell product to idiots will be more than happy to help them in their effort to create the Potemkin Lie.

Chinese Communists and Amerikan Capitalists, both authoritarians, both representing the New Totalitarianism, conpsiring to fool millions and sell a bunch of crap.

Warms the heart, no?

[SpiralHawk]

2. "You Yellow-Peril Proles will never get me, Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[jmowreader]

3. Please tell me that's a real product!