SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has slaughtered more than 1,000 pigs to try to stem the spread of African swine fever (ASF) following its first outbreak of the virus this year, the agriculture ministry said Friday. The animal disease broke out at a pig farm in Hongcheon, a county located about 100 [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Metal fences set up across hills and pig farms in Gangwon Province to contain the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) are posing a risk to the survival of wild animals other than boars. Elk residing in mountainous areas and other wild animals need to descend to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency launched on Thursday the process of outsourcing the design of the nation’s first shield-test facility that will be used in experiments related to the African swine fever (ASF) virus. As a 3rd grade biosafety lab, the shield-test facility is a negative pressure-type special [...]
CHEONGJU, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Crop damages dropped drastically after North Chungcheong Province carried out a region-wide hunt for wild boars between October of last year and March of this year to prevent the outbreak of African swine fever. This year, only one case of crop damage from a wild animal was reported in [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it has developed a new test kit for the African swine fever (ASF) that can pave the way for the country to speed up its battle against the fatal animal disease and reduce its dependency on imported tools. The state-run Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in September last year, the government, Gangwon Province, and other local authorities have endeavored to reduce crop losses by setting up barriers and capturing wild boars. As fences were set up during the wild boar’s breeding season, the animals were [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The African swine fever (ASF) virus, which has hit South Korea’s pig farmers hard over the past six months, appears to have originated from Russia and China before spreading in the inter-Korean border areas via North Korea, a state-run laboratory said Thursday. The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), [...]
DAEJEON, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a technology that can prevent the spread of African swine fever by luring wild boars with the excrement of a female hog. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced Tuesday that wild boars, main carriers of the disease, can be captured by using [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The United Nations Command (UNC) said it has approved a request from the South Korean government for entry into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for a survey on the situation regarding African swine fever (ASF). In a Facebook post Tuesday, the U.S.-led command said it approved “a short notice request” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Preventive culling measures will be allowed when an epidemic such as African swine fever (ASF) sweeps through wild animal populations. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced plans to amend legislation on livestock epidemic prevention, which will come into effect on May 5. The amendment replaced a [...]