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Is ASF back?

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Last Friday, international media reported that China’s largest pig farming province – Sichuan – is battling a local outbreak of African swine fever (ASF).
Some context: China reported its first ASF case in summer 2018. Over the next year, the disease wiped out nearly half of the domestic swine herd ...