South Korea: 2 New ASF Outbreaks (n=9) - Others Farms Being Tested

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It's been 10 days since African Swine Fever was first reported in South Korea, and as of today, 9 farm outbreaks - all the northwestern part of the nation near their border with South Korea - have been confirmed. 

While ASF poses no human health threat, it can be devastating to the pork industry, and none of the other 8 Asian nations struck by the disease in the past 13 months have been able to arrest its spread.

The South Korean Agriculture Ministry website (MAFRA) shows a flurry of activity today, with no less than  5 ASF related press releases. A number farms are reporting unusual mortality or illness and are being tested, but two new farms have been confirmed over the past 24 hours.

Note: Machine translators don't always provide the best syntax.  Reporting `voice'  is indicative of a negative test result.

September 26 report suspicious axis pig farm inspection results in two places, one place is determined voice, one position confirmed African swine fever

(ASF)27.09.2019 09:27:52 Defense Policy Bureau

□ Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Food is 9 Mon. 26 days doubts axis overhaul of Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Quarantine Office on the results reported cases ,

○ games Yangzhou ④ eunhyeonmyeon material pig farm 1 points (550 funnel breeding ) voice has been determined to be

○ Incheon Ganghwa ⑤ hajeommyeon material pig farm 1 points (2,000 funnel breeding ) African swine fever (ASF) today announced that confirmed .

* Domestic ASF diagnosis : a total of 9 cases ( today 1, 旣occurred 8)

1) 9.16 days Report - Gyeonggi Paju material pig farms (9.17 days confirmed )

2) 9.17 days Report - Gyeonggi-do Yeoncheon County pig farm material (9.18 days confirmed )

3) 9.23 days Report - Gyeonggi Gimpo material pig farms (9.23 days confirmed )

4) 9.23 days to report - Gyeonggi Paju material pig farms (9.24 days confirmed )

5) 9.23 days Forecasting - Incheon Ganghwa material pig farms (9.24 days confirmed )

6) 9.25 days to report - Incheon Ganghwa material pig farms (9.25 days confirmed )

7) 9.25 days Forecasting - Incheon Ganghwa material pig farms (9.26 days confirmed )

8) 9.26 days Report - Incheon Ganghwa material pig farms (9.26 days confirmed )

9) 9.26 days Report - Incheon Ganghwa material pig farms (9.27 days confirmed )

□ agri-food section thoroughly disinfected, such as for livestock farms and official quarantine measures and rapid implementation report suspicious axis ( ☏ 1588-9060 / 4060) advised the it was .