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Pork low on menu as fears stay high
By Huang Zhiling and Wang Zhenghua (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-04 05:56
Wu now buys about 5 kilograms of pork at the nearest farm produce market as
the number of pork consumers in his restaurant has nosedived.
"Most diners eat fish and rabbits, few people order dishes made of pork. Some
diners have asked me to use fish as the raw material to cook the dish
'Twice-cooked meat,'" said Ding Yuanyou, a 29-year-old chef in the restaurant.
"As an increasing number of diners prefer fish and rabbits, their prices have
risen by 10 per cent in the local farm produce market, while the price of pork
has not dropped, for many pork sellers have stopped their business," he said.
Wu said he has to go to the market early to buy pork. It would be sold out if
he arrives there after 11 o'clock in the morning. "The reason is that only a few
people sell pork now," he said.
Conversely, an increasing number of people in Ziyang, Sichuan, where the
first case of the streptococcus suis was discovered on June 24, are again eating
pork, said Zhang Jing, a government worker.
People believe that it is now safe to eat pork because the government has
reinforced quarantine, he said.
New cases
One new human case of streptococcus suis and one death caused by the disease
were reported yesterday in Sichuan, according to the Ministry of Health.
By noon yesterday a total of 206 human cases, including 165 confirmed
patients and 41 suspected cases, have been reported in 10 cities of the
province. So far 38 people have died there.
No other human or pig cases of the disease were reported in other areas of
the country yesterday, the ministry said.
(China Daily 08/04/2005 page3)
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