Mass pig slaughter stains South Korean river red
A river near the inter-Korean border
turned red with the blood of pigs slaughtered as Seoul attempts to curb the spread of African swine fever.
South Korea
has culled approximately 380,000 pigs since the first case of the haemorrhagic disease – which is not harmful to humans but is highly infectious in swine – was reported in September.
Pig cases
are nearly always fatal and there is no antidote or vaccine, with the only known way to prevent the disease from spreading being a mass cull of livestock.
A local NGO
said that heavy rains last week caused blood from a burial site near the inter-Korean border – where some 47,000 pig carcasses were piled up – to seep into the Imjin River on Sunday, turning some of the stream red.
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