16,000 Pigs Floating in Chinese Rivers

16,000 Pigs Floating in Chinese Rivers

16,000 Pigs Floating in Chinese Rivers. 1,000 dead ducks were found floating in a river in China just one week after 16,000 dead pigs were pulled out rivers near Shanghai.

"The city's water territory has already basically finished the work of fishing out the floating dead pigs," said a Shanghai government statement released late on Sunday.

China's commercial hub recovered 98 pigs on Sunday from the Huangpu river and 93 on Saturday, the authorities said, the first times the daily toll had fallen below a hundred in days.

The total number Shanghai had removed from the river, which supplies 22 percent of the city's drinking water, had reached 10,924 as of Sunday afternoon.

The cause of death of both the ducks and pigs remains a mystery although officials in both cases say that drinking water remains safe for human consumption.

Samples of the dead pigs have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans.