Deadly pork in market

Told you. Swine is bad for you.

China's deadly swine disease appears to have made its way into pork sold at one of Hong Kong's leading supermarket chains. Government health sources confirmed Tuesday that a 44-year-old male butcher working in the fresh pork section of a Wellcome Supermarket at Leung King Estate in Tuen Mun was admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital Friday suffering from a fever caused by the Streptococcus suis bacteria that has claimed 39 lives and infected more than 200 people in Sichuan province.

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