Recently, an outbreak of African swine fever occurred in a farm in Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. The picture shows a pig house in a pig farm in Henan Province.
The African swine fever Epidemic still exists while the Communist Party of China virus epidemic is raging on the mainland. Recently, an epidemic of African swine fever occurred in a farm in Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, and 214 piglets died.
The news office of the Ministry of Agriculture and rural Affairs of the Communist Party of China issued a notice on the 21st that an epidemic of African swine fever occurred in a farm in Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, suspected to be triggered by illegal importation of transport.
According to the notification, the farm has 1015 piglets in stock, 214 sick and 214 dead.
The African swine fever epidemic has not stopped since it occurred in the mainland in August 2018.
According to RaboResearch data from April 2019, about 700 million pigs have been slaughtered on the mainland in the same year after the outbreak of African swine fever, reducing the total pork stock in mainland China by 150 million to 200 million head in 2019.
There was another outbreak of African swine fever in some areas when heavy rains hit southern China in July 2020. A survey of small pig farmers, corporate farms, traders and slaughterhouses in 20 provinces conducted by Shandong Yongyi had revealed that dozens of cases of African swine fever had occurred in Guangdong Province and Guangxi since the continuous heavy rainfall. In the same year, there were outbreaks of African swine fever in Youyang County, Chongqing, Sichuan Province and Lanzhou, Gansu.
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