
CHANGSHA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Authorities are on the alert for possible disease outbreaks after an estimated 2 billion rats chomped their way through crops in 22 counties around Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan Province.
Li Junhua, spokesman for the Hunan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday work teams have been sent to three cities on Dongting Lake -- Yueyang, Yiyang and Changde -- to help prevent outbreaks of disease.
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