Is China Exporting African Swine Fever to Russia?

  • Russian Far East has reported 59 outbreaks near China border
  • Wild pigs may frustrate both nations’ virus-control efforts

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

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More than a year after African swine fever began ravaging hogs in China, the virus may be escaping along the same route it’s believed to have entered -- via Russia.