Hong Kong: Over 4,700 pigs here will be culled after African swine fever was detected in an animal at a slaughterhouse close to the border with China, the second such case in a month in the crowded financial hub.
The animal came from a farm in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, and importation from mainland China has been suspended until further notification, Sophia Chan, Secretary of the city’s Food and Health Department said on Friday night.
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