China confirms ASF outbreaks in Sichuan and Hubei provinces
China’s agriculture ministry confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever on 6 March in its key pork producing provinces of Sichuan and Hubei.
8 March 2021
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By: Reuters reports that the cases were detected in Aba prefecture in the southwestern province of Sichuan, and the city of Xiangyang in the central province of Hubei.
The outbreak killed 38 pigs on a farm of 127 hogs in Sichuan, China's largest producing province. In Hubei, the disease was detected on a truck of piglets being transported illegally from another province. Of 165 piglets, 10 were infected, and five had died.
China is the world's top pork producer and consumer. A large outbreak of African swine fever wiped out about half of the country's herd in 2019, a year after it reached the country.
China also reported an outbreak earlier this week in the southwestern province of Yunnan.
