African swine fever caused thousands to be slaughtered in Russia.
Bloomberg.com:  A southern Russian farm had to slaughter all 30,736 of its pigs because of African swine fever, the country's largest outbreak of the virus.  The pigs at the Plemzavod Industrial farm in the southern Russian Krasnodar region were used to supply pork to local markets, said Alexei Alekseenko, a spokesman for the Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's food safety agency.  Veterinary officials at the Timashevsky district were fi...
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