China uses abortion pill on gerbils

Thursday, March 26, 2009

BEIJING -- Forestry officials in far western China have resorted to scattering abortion pills near gerbil burrows in a bid to halt a rodent plague threatening the region's ecosystem, state media said Wednesday.

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