Cholera pig in China can spread to other countries

On August 28, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that African swine cholera (ASF), which is raging in China, could spread to other parts of Asia.

China - the world's largest pork producer is trying to prevent this dangerous disease.

In the announcement, the FAO said China had destroyed more than 24,000 pigs in four provinces in the country to prevent the disease from spreading. Infected individuals are found in more than 1,000km apart from each other so there is a risk of disease spreading across borders.

The epidemic is spread by transporting pork products rather than transporting live pigs.

Therefore, the virus can spread to other Asian countries at any time, especially neighboring countries in Southeast Asia or the Korean Peninsula, where trade and consumption of products from Pork is always high.

China announced the first ASF case detected in Liaoning Province, northeastern China in early August. Last week, Lianyungang City, Eastern China, also announced it had destroyed. 14,500 pigs infected with this virus.

According to FAO, the reason for the rapid spread of ASF epidemic in China is the transportation of pork products rather than the transport of live pigs.

According to statistics, about half of the world's pigs are raised in China and the country is also the largest pork consuming country per capita.

does not harm humans but causes dengue fever in farmed pigs and wild pigs, which causes animals to die within a few days.

There is currently no treatment or vaccine to prevent this disease, and the only known way to prevent the spread of disease is to destroy a large number of infected individuals .