Previously confined to the European part of Russia and the Baltic states, the spread of African swine fever (ASF) further east and west is causing alarm on a global scale.

First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Kairat Aituganov said at a press briefing at the government that OIE delegates from 180 countries unanimously voted to assign this status to Kazakhstan at the session of the organisation’s General Assembly in Paris. He stressed this became possible

There is now a second case of African swine fever (ASF) in China. The slaughterhouse is located in the city of Zhengzhou in the Henan province.