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So far this year six African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks in China have been reported to the OIE, with the most recent event occurring in October. Highway checkpoints to monitor animal health have revealed illegal movements of pigs involving a total of 583 susceptible animals. All of these incidences occurred in the Sichuan province. Each truckload contained the following number of pigs: 111 (March 12), 120 (March 13, from a batch of 364 piglets on the affected farm), 128 (March 29), 83 (April 1), 106 (April 21), and 35 (October 26).
In addition to the cases reported to the OIE, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China has released several outbreak reports involving the illegal transport of a total of 1,151 pigs. Most often these pigs are transported from outside the province in which the vehicle was found.
On April 2, an outbreak was recorded in a cooperative in the province of Gansu. In early March, the cooperative illegally transferred 112 piglets from other provinces. On the same day, ASF was detected in a vehicle illegally transferring 110 live piglets. Also in Gansu Province, ASF was found in 320 pigs and breeding stock in illegal transport on April 12.
Similar cases of ASF found in illegally transported batches of pigs were found in the Sichuan Province. On April 5, an infected batch of 298 piglets from a farm in Guizhou Province was discovered. On July 24 (24 pigs) and October 9 (70 piglets) infected animals were found in transport.
On March 30, in the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia 200 piglets found to have ASF were discovered in illegal transportation. Similarly on April 17, in the Jiangsu Province, 17 infected pigs were found.
Outbreaks on farms
Three ASF outbreaks on domestic pig farms have been reported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs so far this year. On April 12, one outbreak occurred in the Shaanxi Province affecting 49 free range pigs. On May 29 in Gansu Province an outbreak occurred on a farm with 9927 pigs. In the Yunnan province on June 5, a farm with 102 piglets was affected.
One outbreak in
wild boar
was reported by the Ministry. Seven wild boar were found dead in the Shennongjia forest area of the Hubei Province on March 3.November 4, 2020/ 333 Staff with information from OIE and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
