African Swine Fever Continues to Spread in China

African Swine Fever Continues to Spread in China
A market selling pork in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu Province. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Olivia Li
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African swine fever has spread to all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China, with new cases of the disease found in Hainan Province, China’s Ministry of Agriculture reported on April 19.

By April 21, swine fever has been detected in ten farms across six locations in Hainan, and a total of 223 pigs have died from the epidemic.