四川南河出現大量腐爛死鴨

China’s dead pig crisis seems to have spread to another species as Chinese state media carried a report saying 1,000 rotten dead ducks had been found in a river in southwest China while the toll of dead pigs removed from Shanghai’s water supply hit nearly 11,000.

中國的死豬危機似乎已蔓延至另一物種。官方媒體報道，中國西南部一條河流出現1000只腐爛的死鴨。與此同時，從上海水源——黃浦江上游打撈起來的死豬數量已接近1.1萬頭。

News of the latest dead animal flotilla comes from Pengshan county in China’s Sichuan province, where a local government official told state radio at the weekend that partially decomposed ducks had been found in 50 to 60 woven plastic bags floating in the Nanhe river.

死鴨來自四川省彭山縣。一名當地政府官員上週末對官方電臺表示，五、六十個裝着死鴨的編織袋出現在南河上，死鴨已部分腐爛。

Like the Shanghai authorities, he said the ducks posed no danger to the local water supply. And like the dead pigs that have been found floating in Shanghai’s Huangpu river over the past fortnight, the cause of death of the ducks remains unknown.

就像上海當局一樣，這名官員也說死鴨對當地供水水質沒有影響。同樣，就像過去兩週人們在上海黃浦江江面上發現的死豬一樣，這些死鴨的死亡原因也仍是個未知數。

State media quoted the Pengshan official as saying that the duck carcases had been disinfected and buried, and “pose no threat to humans or livestock along the banks of the river” which is not a drinking water source.

官方媒體引用彭山縣官員的話稱，死鴨已被消毒並掩埋，由於南河沿岸均沒有飲用水的取水點，死鴨也“不會對河流兩岸人和牲畜帶來危害”。

“How can you tell they are harmless when you don’t know how the ducks died?” asked one microblogger on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, Sina Weibo, where humour has mixed with dismay as Chinese netizens react to China’s latest environmental crisis. “First it was pork soup, now duck soup is available,” wrote another. Pictures of Shanghai’s floating pig carcases have been widely shared on social media sites and aired by television stations around the world.

在新浪微博（Sina Weibo，中國版Twitter）上，中國網民對中國最新環境危機的調侃中夾雜着沮喪。一條微博問道：“死鴨的死因還未查明，你怎麼知道它們不會帶來危害？”另一條微博寫道：“先是肉湯，如今又有鴨湯了。”黃埔江上死豬漂浮的圖片在社交網站廣泛傳播，並被世界各地的電視臺報道。

The Shanghai government said at the weekend that the work of pulling pigs from the Huangpu river had nearly finished, though it has yet to provide an explanation of how they ended up there.

上海政府上週末表示，黃浦江上的打撈工作已基本結束。不過，政府仍未對死豬爲何出現在黃浦江上給出解釋。

The pigs are believed to have floated to Shanghai from the pig-rearing city of Jiaxing in neighbouring Zhejiang province.

據信，上海黃浦江上漂着的死豬來源於鄰近浙江省嘉興市的養豬場。

Additional reporting by Yan Zhang in Shanghai

張嫣上海補充報道