Lab tests confirm fifth case of swine fever in South Korea since last week, raising fears that the country is losing a battle to halt the spread of the illness that wiped out pig populations across Asia
A South Korean quarantine official speaks over his phone as he controls a road to block people from entering in an area where pigs were confirmed to have been infected with African swine fever in Paju, a city near the inter-Korean border, on September 17, 2019.
Officials on Wednesday were investigating another suspected case at a different farm in Ganghwa where two pigs died and another had a miscarriage. In South Korea, where diets rely heavily on pork, there is a concern the outbreak could spread and hurt an industry with 6,300 farms raising more than 11 million pigs. The disease decimated pig herds in China and other Asian countries before reaching the Koreas.
"During the standstill, we will conduct extensive disinfection operations on farms and other related facilities and thoroughly examine the results to strictly maintain quarantine," Kim Hyun-soo, the country's agriculture minister, said in a news briefing on Wednesday. North Korea in recent months has virtually scrapped all diplomatic activity and cooperation with South Korea amid a standstill in nuclear negotiations with the United States, which has complicated efforts to prevent the disease from reaching regions near the inter-Korean border.
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