African Swine Fever -- China
China's agriculture ministry said on Monday [10 Dec 2018] it will ban pig farming in areas inhabited by wild boars to prevent the spread of highly contagious African swine fever [ASF].
China, the world's top pork producer, has reported more than 80 outbreaks of ASF across the country since early August [2018], leading to the culling of hundreds of thousands of pigs.
The ministry said that a strain of the virus found last month [November 2018] in a wild boar was different from the one
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6203157&promed&0
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