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

He Fuxin, 86, whose legs have rotten due to an anthrax infection, walks at his home in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang province, July 5, 2005. He 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]