BAODING, China: When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked ...
BAODING, China: When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked increasingly likely that the farm had been struck by the much feared African swine fever, an incurable disease that has spread rapidly across the country since last year.
"If there is illegal behavior, relevant departments will handle it according to the law," added the statement from the local government's investigative committee.Farmers and other industry insiders told Reuters that China's African swine fever epidemic is far more extensive than official reports suggest, making the disease harder to contain, potentially causing pork shortages and increasing the likelihood that it will spread beyond China's borders.
"Public confirmation of disease is the government's job," Sun told Reuters at his company headquarters in Xushui in late February. Police officers and workers in protective suits are seen at a checkpoint on a road leading to a farm owned by Hebei Dawu Group. In one case in northern China last year, local officials declined to even carry out a test. In another case in Shandong province, official test results came back negative, despite clinical symptoms that strongly pointed to African swine fever and a positive test result obtained by the company itself.
A county official in northeastern Liaoning province told Reuters in January that the local government had poured so much money and resources into preventing and controlling African swine fever that it risked bankrupting the county. Shandong province's animal husbandry bureau did not respond to a fax seeking comment on unreported cases.There is no cure or vaccine for African swine fever and it kills about 90 per cent of infected pigs.
Like blue ear, African swine fever does not harm people. But it is classified a reportable disease by the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health , a global body that promotes transparency, and member country China is obliged to report each outbreak.
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