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South Korea’s agriculture minister, told reporters on Tuesday that in addition to raising the alert level, nearly 4,000 hogs would be culled to prevent the spread of the virus.alert to the highest level after discovering its first outbreak of deadly African swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, a town near its border with North Korea, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.

“We will make all efforts to stop the spread of African swine fever through swift disinfection measures,” Kim said. South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, does not import any pork products or live pigs from China due to China’s history of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. It mainly imports from the United States and Germany, and pork imports account for about a third of the country’s total pork supplies.

 

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Why are they calling it African swine fever? Why can't they call it Korean or Asian swine fever. So Africa is a source of sickness and disease🤔

African swine flu alert generalization of the whole African, just state the country?

How TF is a desease African? What bullsh*t is this?

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