China Finds Dead Boar With ASF as Hog-Killing Disease Goes Feral
Tang Shihua
DATE:  Dec 13 2019
/ SOURCE:  yicai
China Finds Dead Boar With ASF as Hog-Killing Disease Goes Feral China Finds Dead Boar With ASF as Hog-Killing Disease Goes Feral

(Yicai Global) Dec. 12 -- Chinese authorities have discovered three carcasses of wild boar that had contracted African swine fever, spreading fear that the pig-killing epidemic may have made its way out of farms and into the wild.

The Shaanxi Provincial Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center made the finding after testing nine dead boars, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said yesterday.

Local authorities have initiated an emergency response and cleansed the infected carcasses. They are inspecting other local wild swine and are restricting outdoor breeding of domestic pigs, as well as checking and sterilizing local farms near where the boars were found.

China's first case of swine fever was discovered in northeast China in August 2018 and the disease has since spread to provinces countrywide, sending the price of pork, the nation's favorite meat, spiraling upwards.

The decline in hog supplies pushed the country's consumer price index to rise by the most in nearly eight years last month, with food prices rising 19 percent and leading the charge behind the CPI's 4.5 percent gain.

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Keywords:   African Swine Fever,Virus Detection,Wild Boar,CPI