African Swine Fever -- China
A man in a white protective suit parked a dump truck at the edge of a dusty pit and unloaded a pile of pink carcasses. They tumbled to the ground just as a 2nd truck arrived with another batch.
The scene at a Hong Kong landfill this week was part of a government effort to kill and dispose of 6000 pigs from a slaughterhouse where one of them had been found to have African swine fever [ASF].
It was the latest turn in an outbreak that has decimated pig herds in the Chinese mainland and
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6475201&promed&0
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