China culls 38,000 pigs as swine fever spreads.
More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture.
China reported its first case of the disease in August in northeast Liaoning province.
Since then the disease has moved south, with cases discovered as far as 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, raising concerns it could infect pig farms across the country.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 03 2018, @10:05PM
That was my thought also. If the Chinese media is reporting 38,000 culled, I'm going to assume it was actually 500,000 and another 1,000,000 pigs that should have been culled have been trucked off somewhere out of sight.
It is entirely possible that this disease is in China to stay now.