Sources: China's Massive Swine Contagion Could Lose 200M Pigs

(AP)

By    |   Sunday, 21 July 2019 05:03 PM EDT ET

Already beset by a cooling economy, a trade war, and an insurrection brewing in Hong Kong over political interference from the mainland, China’s Communist Party rulers have yet another headache to worry about: The largest animal-disease breakout “in the history of the planet.”

Owing to suspect data and political messaging, the size of the African Swine Fever (ASF) scourge that has decimated Chinese pig herds over the past year is difficult to assess.

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Already beset by a cooling economy, a trade war, and an insurrection brewing in Hong Kong over political interference from the mainland, China's Communist Party rulers have yet another headache to worry about: The largest animal-disease breakout "in the history of the...
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