Taiwan: Shredded chicken laced with pork tests positive for ASF virus in Southern Taiwan

Published 2021년 8월 30일

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Seventeen kilograms of shredded chicken and beef jerky packets have tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The products were found in the dorm room of a Vietnamese migrant worker. The police suspect that the ASF-infected meat could have been imported by two Vietnamese women who were later detained for smuggling. Taiwan is on high alert for ASF following the seizure of 71 kilograms of banned meat products from Vietnam in New Taipei, which also tested positive for the virus.

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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Packets of shredded chicken containing pork traces have tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus, Kaohsiung’s Agriculture Bureau said Sunday (Aug. 29). Kaohsiung police authorities confiscated 17 kilograms of shredded chicken and beef jerky packets in the dorm room of a Vietnamese migrant worker on Monday (Aug. 23), according to a CNA report. The shredded chicken later tested positive for the ASF virus — a highly contagious, incurable disease for which there is no vaccine. An officer from Gangshan Precinct in Kaohsiung said Sunday that the police suspect the ASF-infected meat found in Kaohsiung could have been imported by the two Vietnamese women suspected of smuggling the meat confiscated in New Taipei. The women have been detained since Monday (Aug. 23). The precinct will continue to look into the case and will refer it to the Ciaotou District Prosecutors ...

Source: Taiwannews