![]() ![]() The pigs’ long journey, and the vast distance between the two cases, stoked concerns about the spread of disease across China’s massive pig herd, as well as potentially into Japan, the Korean Peninsula and other parts of Asia. Another northeastern province, Liaoning, has culled thousands of pigs since a first case of ASF was reported two weeks ago. The infected pigs had traveled 2300 kilometers by road from a live market in Jiamusi city in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang, through areas of high pig density to central Henan. Shuanghui said in a separate statement on Friday it culled 1,362 pigs at the slaughterhouse after the infection was discovered. ![]() Zhengzhou city authorities have banned all movement of pigs and pork products in and out of the affected area for the same six weeks. The plant is one of 15 controlled by China’s largest pork processor Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development, a subsidiary of WH Group. ![]() WH Group said in a statement that Zhengzhou city authorities had ordered a temporary six-week closure of the slaughterhouse after some 30 hogs died of the highly contagious illness on Thursday. It occurs among commercial herds and wild boars, is transmitted by ticks and direct contact between animals, and can also travel via contaminated food, animal feed, and international travelers. ![]() Though often fatal to pigs, with no vaccine available, ASF does not affect humans, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).ĪSF has been detected in Russia and Eastern Europe as well as Africa, though never before in East Asia, and is one of the most devastating diseases to affect swine herds. The discovery of infected pigs in Zhengzhou city, in central Henan province, about 1,000 km (625 miles) from the first case ever reported in China, pushed pig prices lower on Friday and stirred animal health experts’ fears of fresh outbreaks - as well as food safety concerns among the public. FILE PHOTO: Employees sort cuts of fresh pork inside a Shuanghui factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China March 15, 2013. ![]()
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