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Beijing

New swine fever outbreaks reported

China has confirmed new outbreaks of African swine fever in Shaanxi and Guizhou provinces, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Monday. On a farm in Shenmu, a county-level city in Shaanxi, 19 pigs were confirmed infected with the viral disease. All of them had died, the ministry said, citing a China Animal Disease Control Center report. Outbreaks were also found in the Baiyun district of Guiyang, Guizhou, where five pigs were infected and confirmed dead, it said. A team was dispatched to Shaanxi and Guizhou immediately, and local authorities have initiated an emergency response prevent the spread of the disease.