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African Swine Fever in North Korea and Poland
June 5, 2019 —
African swine fever has been confirmed in North Korea and Poland.
The first case of African swine fever has officially been reported in North Korea. The outbreak was confirmed at a farm in Jagang province in North Korea near the country's border with China on May 25. Read more at Farm Journal's Pork.
A farm with more than 8,000 pigs in Poland has broke with African swine fever. While ASF has been spreading across the country through wild boars, this break is only the third this year in domestic pig populations and by far the largest. Read the full story at National Hog Farmer.
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