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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 18 september 2019

South Korea culls pigs after confirming African swine fever

By KIM TONG-HYUNG decimated pig herds in
Associated Press China and other Asian
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — countries before reaching
South Korea is culling thou- the Koreas. It is harmless to
sands of pigs after confirm- people but for pigs is highly
ing African swine fever at contagious and fatal. There
a farm near its border with is no known cure.
North Korea, which had an "We will invest maximum ef-
outbreak in May. fort to prevent the disease
Kim Hyun-soo, South Ko- from spreading ... we be-
rea's agricultural minister, lieve the first week (follow-
said the country's first case ing the outbreak) would be
of the highly contagious most dangerous," consider-
disease was confirmed ing incubation periods, Kim
Tuesday in tests on five pigs said during a news confer-
that died Monday evening ence in Sejong City.
at the farm in the city of "We will quickly complete
Paju. monitoring inspections at
His ministry later said it was the 6,300 farms (nation-
looking into a suspected wide) ... checking each pig
second case from a farm in to see whether it has fever
the nearby town of Yeon- or not and testing on even
cheon, where the owner re- A quarantine official wearing protective gear places a barricade as a precaution against African the slightest of symptoms,"
ported the death of a pig, swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. he said.
and that test results were Associated Press South Korean President
expected by Wednesday Moon Jae-in called for fast
morning. two other farms run by the dered a 48-hour standstill disease, which threatens and stern quarantine mea-
Officials were planning to same family. The govern- on all pig farms, slaugh- a massive industry that in- sures to prevent the disease
complete by Tuesday the ment also strengthened ef- terhouses and feed facto- volves 6,000 farms raising from wreaking havoc on
culling of some 4,000 pigs forts to disinfect farms and ries across the country to more than 11 million pigs. the pork industry, the presi-
raised at the Paju farm and transport vehicles and or- prevent the spread of the African swine fever has dential Blue House said.q
20 dead as truck falls off cliff in southern Philippines

Associated Press to death. Five other victims it ran out of control. They
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — later died in hospitals, Lim- were scattered on the
Twenty villagers were killed son said. mountainside," del Car-
and 14 others were injured Police, Red Cross volunteers men, who was among
when the truck they were and villagers retrieved the those who retrieved the
riding in lost control and 15 bodies from the wreck- dead, said by phone.
fell off a cliff Tuesday in a age at the bottom of the Video posted by witnesses
remote mountain village ravine. Some of the dead online showed the upland
in the southern Philippines, included children returning road where the accident
police and the Red Cross from a family reunion at a happened has no steel or
said. beach resort, Limson said concrete railing. Below, the
Provincial police chief Joel by phone. mangled wreckage of the
Limson said the truck was Red Cross leader Erwin truck is seen lying on its side.
negotiating a downhill Rommel del Carmen said Deadly road accidents
road in Tboli town in South several passengers sur- are common in the Philip- In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, Red Cross
Cotabato province when vived by jumping off the pines because of weak en- volunteers retrieve the bodies of victims following a road ac-
its brakes apparently failed wayward bus. forcement of traffic laws, cident Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in a remote village in the Tboli
and plummeted down a "Majority of the survivors rickety vehicles and inad- township, South Cotabato in the southern Philippine.
Associated Press
ravine, pinning 15 people jumped out of the bus as equate road safety railings