First cases of swine fever reported in Guangxi and Shandong

Twenty-six regions of China's provinces have now confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever, with the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Shandong Province being the latest to reveal that the disease has spread to their hog farms.

On Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture announced that 23,555 pigs in Guangxi had been slaughtered during disease control operations. The ministry reported that 1,629 pigs had been infected in that country and that 924 of them had died of this disease, which usually kills pigs that they infect but whose impact does not affect them. is not known.