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Kinmen slaughters 530 pigs due to foot and mouth epidemic
2012/02/03 22:21:14
Taipei, Feb. 3 (CNA) Kinmen County killed 530 pigs Friday as an emergency measure to prevent the further spread of a "type O pan Asia" foot and mouth epidemic that had already affected two pig farms, the county government said Friday.
Kinmen County authorities suspect the epidemic was triggered by an imported pig, but an investigation to determine the pig's country of origin was still underway, according to reports published a day earlierby the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantineunder the Council of Agriculture (COA)...
Kinmen slaughters 530 pigs due to foot and mouth epidemic
2012/02/03 22:21:14
Taipei, Feb. 3 (CNA) Kinmen County killed 530 pigs Friday as an emergency measure to prevent the further spread of a "type O pan Asia" foot and mouth epidemic that had already affected two pig farms, the county government said Friday.
Kinmen County authorities suspect the epidemic was triggered by an imported pig, but an investigation to determine the pig's country of origin was still underway, according to reports published a day earlierby the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantineunder the Council of Agriculture (COA)...