Lethal Pig Virus in Fourth China Province Raises Disease Threat
- African swine fever kills 340 pigs in Zhejiang province
- Wider outbreak may prompt China to import more pork in 2019
The emergence of African swine fever is a major threat to China
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African swine fever was confirmed in a fourth Chinese province, indicating further spread of the lethal disease that threatens to disrupt the world’s largest pig industry.
The virus killed 340 pigs and infected 430 others on farms in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs confirmed Thursday, four days after it was reported in neighboring Jiangsu, and some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from where an initial outbreak was discovered Aug. 3 in northeastern Liaoning province.