Then the incidence was down to a couple of cases per month. Now its more than a dozen in the last two months, reports Reuters news agency.
This week ASF was discovered in pigs in a truck during inspection in Nanjiang county near Bazhong city. The truck was carrying more than 100 pigs and two had died, Reuters reports.
African Swine Fever outbreaks started in August, 2018, and spread rapidly resulting in the loss of about half of China’s pigs. It was the world’s largest pork producer.
There are forecasts indicating that pork prices in China are headed for a peak this fall.
Canada recently regained permission to resume pork exports to China.
