Government to Send 40,000 Pigs to Slaughter
From Times Wire Reports
The government said it would slaughter 40,000 pigs in central South Korea after 20 tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease.
Hoping to halt the disease’s spread, authorities will slaughter all pigs at farms within 1.8 miles from where initial cases were found in Jinchon district, an Agriculture and Forestry Ministry official said. The government has so far slaughtered about 35,000 livestock.
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