Survivors of Japanese germ war in Jinhua
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Updated: 2005-07-06 15:12

Zhang Songxian, 78, whose feet have rotten due an anthrax infection, has his lunch with his wife at their home in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang province, July 5, 2005. Zhang is a victim of the germ-warfare launched by Japanese troops during World War II. Starting from October 1940, Japanese troops launched an extensive germ-warfare in China, spreading bacterium of plague, cholera, typhoid fever, anthrax and glanders in Jinhua and Quzhou of Zhejiang, killing more than 60,000 Chinese. [newsphoto]
 

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