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China this year is experiencing frankly hard times. First, this country was the first to receive the blow of the coronavirus. Then, faced with the new round of economic war with the West. After that, the situation is exacerbated by the new escalation of protests in Hong Kong, in which China runs the risk of losing the city as a regional economic center. And finally from this, several Chinese provinces were hit by floods, resulting in the outbreak of African swine fever.

Farmers in southern China warned about the possible infection of their livestock African swine fever. The reason for this was the incessant rains that caused floods and some rivers as a result overflowed.

the Floods have flooded houses in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region and Guangdong province, as well as in the East China province of Jiangxi, where heavy rains increased the flow of local rivers.

common on the Internet video, you can watch were flooded in rural Jiangxi pig – bringing live pigs were forced to swim in the water. This created the risk of new outbreaks of African swine fever.

Traditionally, one of the main reasons that hindered the spread of the plague among animals, was the division of the feeders between the pigs. As a result of flooding boundaries have been violated. This is what has caused the outbreak.

Pigs are infected mainly by contact with sick animals or contaminated feed, drinking water and leftovers. According to the Chinese center for control and prevention of diseases, in China there is a clear practice of the fight against disease: when you find infected pigs, killed and then buried in the ground.

Experts of the Chinese center for control and disease prevention emphasize that this is not the first outbreak of African swine fever in the territory of China.

the Last major case was in 2018-2019, and then the disease was brought under control. Then China is mainly confined to such measures as avoiding the use of liquor for joint feeding of pigs, as well as sharing healthy pigs and sick pigs – or to defeat the disease would be difficult, because there is no vaccine against this disease.

Experts believe that any of the horrific outbreak of African swine fever in the near future is not expected. They believe that there is a possibility of regional infections, but a serious epidemic at the moment is unlikely. But this does not mean that the danger is completely eliminated.

As the old Chinese saying States: “After a major disaster starts a large epidemic”. Experts say that it is because the viruses that ZAR��zhayut poultry and livestock, can be washed away by the floods, so they can contaminate the water and infect other living animals.

the Situation is aggravated by the fact that in the current environment it is impossible to eliminate flooding: precipitation in South China and do not think to stop, which causes the risk of spreading such a situation in other areas. However, there are already preparing for emergencies and promised not to allow any outbreaks of plague.

the CEO of a major pig farm in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, surnamed Qian, confirmed that it is likely that floods can flood a pig farm, but with the current rainfall without risk of the epidemic.

“Preventive measures to combat African swine fever, such as regular disinfection of pigs, workers and environment of the farm, will prevent infection of animals,” said Qian.