Tag Archive for PRO/AH> African swine fever – Asia (38): China, wild boar, domestic swine, control, RFI
PRO/AH> African swine fever – Asia (38): China, wild boar, domestic swine, control, RFI
African Swine Fever -- ChinaChina'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 Read more [...]
