African Swine Fever -- Worldwide/Unknown
In the coming weeks, bacon sandwich eaters in Newcastle and dairy farmers in California may find their pockets hit by developments thousands of miles away. The culprit is an outbreak of African swine fever [ASF] that is sweeping through Asia, leading to the culling of millions of pigs in China and Vietnam, in what one expert calls the world's biggest animal disease outbreak to date. The USA and the UK are watching keenly. Denmark has built a 43-mile border fence to keep out wild boar. The
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6510191&promed&0
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