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5,916 Dead Pigs Descend on Shanghai by River (Updated)

An armada of over 3,300 [update: 5,916] dead pigs drifted down the Huangpu river towards Shanghai over the weekend, prompting a major clean-up operation. Some of the animals are said to have frozen to death; some are apparently among the 20,000 casualties of a disease outbreak in upstream Zhejiang earlier this year, with porcine circovirus detected in the river water. The virus does not harm humans