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Henan

Pigs with African swine fever found

An outbreak of African swine fever has been identified in a slaughterhouse in Zhengzhou, Henan province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Thursday. An investigation found that the slaughterhouse, in an economic development zone in Zhengzhou, had purchased 260 pigs from a market in Tangyuan county, Heilongjiang province. Some 30 of the pigs had died of African swine fever as of Thursday morning. Henan has initiated an emergency response mechanism to block, cull and disinfect the affected pigs.