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BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday confirmed a new outbreak of African swine fever in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China, as authorities struggled to contain the highly contagious disease.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that a slaughterhouse in the city of Hohhot had reported the outbreak, adding that four pigs had been infected and that two had died of African swine fever .
The world's largest pork producer has seen a steady stream of new outbreaks since the first reported case in early August. The authorities have banned the transport of live pigs and pork products from areas bordering provinces where African swine fever has been reported, closed live markets and banned the use of pork blood products.
But the lack of local labor and financial resources has hampered these efforts.
African swine fever is a devastating disease that can lead to haemorrhaging of the skin and internal organs and the death of pigs in two to ten days.
Although it is not harmful to humans, there is no vaccine and there are many possible means of transmission, including direct contact between animals, feeds and animals. people traveling from one place to another.
(Report by Min Zhang and Se Young Lee, edited by Clarence Fernandez and Christian Schmollinger)
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