24 November 2023
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Hong Kong has ordered the culling of virtually two thousand pigs after confirming a 2nd case of African swine fever (ASF) in a month, reported Reuters.
The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Division (AFCD) on Thursday stated it deliberate to cull round 1,900 pigs from one herd on Nov. 25 after the virus used to be came upon at an area pig farm.
The approved pig farm at Lau Fau Shan, within the rural Yuen Lengthy space close to the border with mainland China, examined sure for the ASF virus after workforce took samples from 62 pigs.
“The existing case does now not have an effect on the operation of native slaughterhouses nor the total provide of reside pigs,” the dept spokesperson stated in a commentary, including that it is going to stringently behavior cleansing and stay native pig farms underneath shut surveillance.
Previous this month, government ordered the culling of round 5,600 pigs after detecting an ASF outbreak at a farm in Yuen Lengthy. It used to be now not straight away transparent if the second one case used to be discovered on the identical farm or a unique one.