China has banned the import of pigs, pig merchandise and wild boar from Bangladesh, it turned the newest nation in Asia to report an outbreak of African swine fever to the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH).

Bangladesh confirmed its first case of ASF on December 21 at a farm within the main port metropolis of Chittagong. The outbreak started on November 13 on a farm in Rangamati with 414 inclined pigs.

In accordance with a report by Reuters, Chinese language customs mentioned the ban was put in place to guard the security of the nation’s livestock trade and stop the introduction of epidemics.

Animal and plant waste which might be unloaded from ships, plane and different from of transportation automobiles from Bangladesh should be disposed of underneath the supervision of customs, it mentioned in a press release.

The report provides that farmers in China, who increase about half of the world’s pigs, have ramped up the slaughter of tens of tens of millions of pigs since November as they struggled with excessive prices, low costs and an outbreak of African swine fever.