PRO/AH/EDR> African swine fever- Asia (03): China (HE, HL), spread

African Swine Fever — China
China found its 2nd case of African swine fever (ASF) on [Thu 16 Aug 2018] at a slaughterhouse owned by WH Group Ltd’s Chinese unit, stirring concerns about the spread of the deadly infection across the world’s largest pig herd.
Some 30 hogs died of the disease at the slaughterhouse in Zhengzhou in central Henan province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement. The pigs had traveled thousands of kilometers from a farm in Jiamusi city in China’s northeastern