BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry on Wednesday said a new outbreak of African swine fever had been confirmed in Sichuan province in the southwest of the country.
The highly contagious disease was found on a farm with 102 pigs in Jiajiang county in central Sichuan, infecting and killing 21 of the animals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
China, the world's biggest pork consumer, has reported more than 140 outbreaks of African swine fever disease since the first case in August last year.
(Reporting by Tom Daly; editing by Jason Neely)
