By Meletus EZE
Northeast China’s Liaoning province has now culled 8,116 hogs in response to an outbreak of African swine fever earlier this month, the provincial animal husbandry bureau told the Media on Wednesday.
Hog is a male pig that is castrated and kept for meat.
No new cases have been discovered in provincial capital Shenyang, where the deadly fever has so far been contained, since the outbreak on Aug. 3, a spokesman for the bureau said.
This confirmed a report in the state-run People’s media.
The number of hogs culled includes the 913 that were slaughtered in the immediate aftermath of China’s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease, amid concerns it could spread through the world’s largest pig herd.
The fever occurs among pigs and wild boars and has no vaccine. It does not affect humans.
Chinese pig producer, New Hope Liuhe, said on Monday it would suffer no direct losses as a result of the outbreak.
However, it said there could be an indirect impact as a result of control measures the Liaoning Government places on slaughterhouses.
