Pigmeat deaths
At least 42 people have died in two remote villages in West Irian, the Indonesian half of New Guinea, after eating pork from diseased pigs. Officials said that the meat came from some 3400 pigs which had died since ‘last month after being afflicted by an unidentified disease. Local health authorities have urged the villagers to destroy the dead pigs and not to eat their meat. — Jakarta.
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Press, 25 August 1983, Page 13
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