China's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday it had detected the deadly African swine fever virus in pigs transported to the southwestern province of Sichuan, the latest in a dozen such cases in the last two months. China has been battling African swine fever since August 2018, after the disease spread rapidly throughout the world's top pork producer, killing millions of pigs and sending pork prices soaring. "The government has easier access to pig transport trucks than having to rely on farmers' willingness to report outbreaks," said Dirk Pfeiffer, professor of veterinary epidemiology at City University of Hong Kong.
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