Swine fever toll on China's pork industry

By By Dominique Patton and Hallie Gu
Updated June 30 2019 - 1:03pm, first published 1:01pm
Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever.
Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever.

As many as half of China's breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, twice as many as officially acknowledged, according to four people who supply large farms.

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