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Taipei, March 19 (CNA) A pork sausage produced in China has been tested positive for African swine fever (ASF), bringing the total number of similar cases to 33, the Central Emergency Operations Center said Tuesday. from Taiwan for the PPA.
The sausage was tested for ASF on March 3, after being found cut into several pieces and thrown at the Taipei Songshan Airport. It was reportedly introduced to Taiwan by a pbadenger who disembarked from an airlifter flight from the Far East departing from Hefei City, in China's Anhui Province, announced on Wednesday. center.
Samples were sent to the Animal Health Research Institute of the Council of Agriculture for testing and found to contain gene fragment sequences identical to those of the strain of PPP in China, according to the center.
Since October 2018, 33 pork products from China have been confirmed to be infected with ASF: one in October, two in November, four in December, 11 in January, 11 in February and four in March, according to statistics from the site. center.
As of March 15, 113 outbreaks had been reported in 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, with more than 950,000 pigs slaughtered, according to data published on the United Nations Web site. food and agriculture.
China confirmed its first PPP outbreak in Liaoning Province on August 3, 2018, the website said.
Taiwan is on the alert, fearing that the spread of the virus from China will hit its pork industry, which represents NT $ 80 billion (US $ 2.60 billion) a year.
Although PPA does not affect humans, the virus is deadly to pigs and there is no known treatment or vaccine.
(By Wu Hsin-yun and William Yen)
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