Pork

Thailand on red alert for ‘Pig Ebola’

Thailand, one of Asia’s top pork producers, is intensifying efforts to hold off a lethal pig virus that’s causing havoc as it spreads across the region.African swine fever – a disease that kills nearly all the pigs it infects – has been spreading through Asia from China and Mongolia to Vietnam and Cambodia.

20 May 2019
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Deadly pig virus spreads

Bans on pork products from China may be widened as part of emergency measures to stem the global spread of African swine fever.The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations agency spearheading an international effort to control the deadly pig virus, plans to release recommendations for governments after a crisis meeting in Bangkok this week.

8 September 2018
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