African Swine Fever Getting Out of Control in South China, Pig Dealers Profit by Selling Infected Pork

African Swine Fever Getting Out of Control in South China, Pig Dealers Profit by Selling Infected Pork
Chinese customers buy pork at a supermarket in Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi province.STR/AFP/Getty Images
Olivia Li
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Pig farmers in Guangxi and Guangdong provinces in southern China have witnessed firsthand the decimation caused by the spread of African swine fever. But local authorities are denying that the pig deaths are the result of the epidemic.

Meanwhile, some pig dealers are processing the dead animals and profiting from selling the pork to unknowing customers, according to local accounts.