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African swine fever has wiped out a third of China’s pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world’s largest pork market. Pork is a huge deal in China. The country is home to half of…
Nearly 100,000 pigs will be culled after an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak was detected at one of Ukraine’s biggest pig farms, the Ukrainian state food safety service said on Wednesday. This outbreak affects 1.6% of Ukraine’s pig herd and…
Bulgaria has detected another outbreak of African swine fever at a pig breeding farm near the north eastern city of Ruse, after the deadly virus was discovered earlier this month, the food safety agency said on Wednesday. That was the…
Big losses unprecedented, the budget is exhausted The latest statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development show that, until now, cholera pig in Africa (DTLCP) has been discharged at 5,422 communes, 513 districts of 62 provinces and cities;…
Laos has reported its first cases of African swine fever (ASF), confirming outbreaks in the southern province of Saravane, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. The southeast Asian country reported seven outbreaks of ASF in…
Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an oubreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far to 1.7 million, or 5% of the country’s herd, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.…
Japan’s outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF), or hog cholera, has spread to five prefectures, including Osaka, since the country reported the disease Sept. 9. Until then, the country had not reported a case of CSF for 26 years. More…
China has been one of the worst nations affected by the disease China has been one of the worst nations affected by the disease China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has revealed that it has culled 916,000 pigs since…
The government warned about both foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu … There are 24 foot and mouth outbreaks in 6 provinces and cities. While Nhan Dan newspaper talked about these two epidemics in Kon Tum, the VNA newsletter said about…
The number of hogs and poultry killed in Hurricane Florence flooding is already double the casualties from Matthew in 2016, and the losses are expected to mount this week as new information comes in from farmers as they gain access…
