African Swine Fever Spreading Throughout Vietnam, Government Document Says

Reuters (7/15, Vu, Nguyen) reports, “African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam and could affect its food supplies and put upward pressure on inflation, according to a government document.” The Vietnamese document said, “The risk of wider spread of the disease is very high, and it can affect food supplies, consumer prices and the environment.” The country “has culled 42,400 infected pigs so far this year, the document said, up by nearly five times that of the same period last year.”