African swine fever cases resurface in China amid COVID-19 crisis

With world still battling to contain coronavirus spre, cases of African swine fever has been reported from Yunyang County of China's Chongqing province. According to reports, 298 infected piglets were illegally transferred from or provinces of China to Chongqing. Media reports suggest that 64 piglets from 298 have died due to African swine fever. Before coronavirus gripped China, African swine flu killed over 60 percent of its pig population between 2018-2019 and it seems that fever has resurfaced.

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Just recently, China h reported two cases of African swine fever in northwestern Gansu province. According to reports, virus that was first detected in Kenya in 1909 and spre to Europe and Asia, is harmless to humans, but fatal for pigs. re is no known treatment for fever yet, but researchers at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute are at work on a vaccine. 

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China just last month was able to flatten curve of its coronavirus infections. More than 3,300 people have lost ir lives in China due to COVID-19, while re are still 1,376 active cases in country. China faced a lot of criticism from international community for its poor handling of outbreak and not providing world with information related to disease. 

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Coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus infection has claimed more than 66,500 lives across world and has infected over 12,25,000 people globally since it first broke out in December 2019. China was most affected country until last month before Italy and Spain surpassed it to record most number of deaths anywhere in world due to COVID-19. virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in China's Wuhan city, epicentre of disease, where animals were reportedly being tred illegally.

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