One year after the first outbreak of ASF in Gangwon, South Korea, 9 thousand heads from 7 farms were buried

(Chuncheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Jae-hyun Lee = Since the first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in a pig farm in Gangwon Province last year, until recently, there has been a breathtaking quarantine in seven places in the province. The number of ASF virus-infected wild boars, known as a major mediator of ASF spread, was 995 in Gangwon, compared to 646 in Gyeonggi region, the first outbreak in Korea in September 2019, approaching 1,000. caught According to Gangwon-do on the 7th, the first ASF outbreak at a breeding farm in the province was on October 8 last year. After the first outbreak at a farm in Hwacheon, where about 720 cows were being raised, on the 9th, the next day, another farmhouse in Hwacheon adjacent to the outbreak occurred one after another. Afterwards, this year, starting with Yeongwol on May 4th, Goseong, Inje, and Hongcheon in August, followed sporadically at 7 farms for a year until the farmhouse in Nammyeon, Inje on the 5th. As a result, 9,192 pigs raised ...