China halts imports of German pork after swine fever case

AFP via TheLocal.de ^ | 12 September 2020 15:54 CEST+02:00

[Olog-hai]

China announced Saturday it was banning imports of pork products from Germany after the European country confirmed its first case of African swine fever.

Germany is Europe’s biggest pork producer and recently saw a surge in demand from China after it suffered an outbreak of the same disease.

Scientists detected swine fever in a dead wild boar in the eastern state of Brandenburg, the German agricultural ministry said on Thursday.

Authorities had been concerned about the disease crossing into the country from neighboring Poland after a spate of cases were detected there last year.

China responded to the news by forbidding the import of all pig products and will return or destroy any products that have already shipped, a joint statement from the country’s customs agency and agriculture ministry said. …

[Olog-hai]

The press is changing terms again, from “swine flu” (associated with O’Biden/Bama?) to “swine fever” (omits the causative pathogen).

[Olog-hai]

Just saw that there is a distinction, this being African swine “fever” that isn’t supposed to harm humans but is deadly to pigs. The terms are just too close, however, and if there was no harm to humans then there would not be a ban.

[al baby]

No pork for jewwww

[dfwgator]

More for the rest of us.

[webheart]

I don’t want German pork either

[Verginius Rufus]

"Always something new out of Africa."

--Pliny the Elder