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China reports new African swine fever outbreak

Thursday, 14 November 2019 11:11 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 14 November 2019 11:17 AM ]

A vendor sells pork at a market in Beijing, China, on October 15, 2019. (File photo by AFP)

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported a new case of African swine fever on a farm in the southwestern province of Yunnan on Wednesday.

The farm, in a district of Tengchong City, had 261 pigs, and 97 had already died of the disease, it said.

African swine fever is a fatal pig disease that was first reported in China in August 2018 and has since spread throughout the country, killing millions of pigs and reducing the size of the herd by more than 40 percent.

(Source: Reuters)

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