The OIE have reported more confirmed cases of African swine fever in wild boar in China, but the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) say that the number of cases in 2020 is significantly lower than seen in early 2019.And in other porker news at PoAndPo:
According to China Daily, a dramatic decrease in ASF cases has been observed in the first quarter of 2020, with Yang Zhenhai, chief of the ministry's Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Bureau, telling a press conference that up to 5 March 2020, only one outbreak had been confirmed, compared to 12 outbreaks during the same period in 2019.
He added that the COVID-19 outbreak may put some pressures on controlling the ASF epidemic...MORE
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