ASF Taiwan: First outbreak on Taichung farm confirmed

The authorities in Taiwan have confirmed the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) on a farm on the island. It is the first-ever outbreak of the viral disease on the island. On Tuesday, October 21, tests confirmed that a pig on a roughly 300-pig farm in the coastal Wuqi district in Taichung, about 150 km south of the capital Taipei, tested positive for the nucleic acid of the virus. The pigs got tested after 117 of them had died between October 10 and 20. After this initial found, 195 pigs go