African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will Take Decades

Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by caf on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:57PM (#20111450)

This is pretty horrifying:

A United Nations report suggests some food-waste containing pork was dumped from a ship visiting the port of Poti on the Georgian Black Sea and then eaten by one of the local pigs that are allowed to scavenge on garbage. Within weeks, 30,000 pigs had died and 80 percent of Georgia’s districts were thought to be infected.

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Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by ohiovr on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:59AM (#20113634)

I learned recently that pigs are fed all kinds of scraps even pork. Why aren’t they vulnerable to diseases similar to mad cow disease?

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Re:African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will ... by oliwarner on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:15PM (#20116654)

For the same reason BSE is rare, we stop higher risk spinal columns entering the food chain at any point. They are removed and incinerated.

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