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The dead pigs are being thrown into the water, not dying from the water. After being dumped in, they are becoming toxic in the river and emitting poison into the water.  The city of Shanghai relies on the river for the all the drinkable water in the city.  City officials have no idea how toxic the river has become, since no studies were done prior to the findings.  More research showed that the pigs are being dumped into the river because of costs of discarding the dead animal. It is cheaper to dump it, even though it could be toxic to the whole city.  Makes you wonder - we eat dead animals. But, when dumped in drinking water, they become toxic.... Hmmm.....

The vaccine routes would use non-toxic fragments of alpha toxin or a non-toxic forms of whole toxin as immunogens. The antibodies would protect the alpha-toxins from binding to the C-domain cell membrane allowing for leukocytes to clear the bacteria.

I am going to file this under "life finds a way".

This is an interesting article about eukaryotes engaging in gene transfer with bacteria and archaea to survive in extreme environments.