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Livestock carcasses buried in China's quake zone
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-29 10:44
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XINING - The carcasses of more than 40,000 livestock killed in the April 14 earthquake in northwest China have been buried, according to the Qinghai provincial agriculture and animal husbandry department.
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The department had immunized around 30,760 Tibetan mastiffs against rabies in the quake zone and all remaining mastiffs would be immunized by Friday.
Immunization against anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease were also underway and would be completed by May 10.
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed 2,220 people, and 70 people still missing. More than 12,000 were injured, and tens of thousands of residential buildings collapsed.
