China News Service, April 5 (Xinhua) According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs website, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs News Office released on April 5 that an illegal swine fever epidemic occurred in piglets illegally transferred from other provinces in Yunyang County, Chongqing City.

On April 5, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs received a report from the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center. After being diagnosed by the Chongqing Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, a group of piglets illegally transferred from a pig farm in Jiangkou Town, Yunyang County from other provinces experienced African swine fever A total of 298 piglets were killed and 64 died.

After the epidemic was diagnosed, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs immediately sent a supervision team to Chongqing to carry out epidemic disposal supervision and epidemiological investigation. The local government has activated the emergency response mechanism as required, and adopted standard measures to deal with it. Public security organs have intervened in the investigation. At present, the epidemic situation has been dealt with, and the epidemic situation investigation and tracing work is in progress.