November 13, 2019

Anna Murray 

Nearly 47,000 pigs infected with African swine fever were slaughtered by the government of the South Korea, which resulted in the stream of blood flowing toward the main water source of Seoul. 

The residents who lived in the towns between South and North Korea’s border and Seoul were alarmed when the media reported that the stream in Yeoncheon had turned red. Later, the Seoul’s official said they had disinfected the pigs before being culled, and they had already cleaned the blood in the river with devices.

NGO claimed that the heavy rainfall caused the blood from nearby burial site seeping into the Imjin River, and the famers couldn’t work due to unbearable smell. Since September 2019, the first infection was reported, almost 400,000 pigs have been slaughtered so far by officials in South Korea to prevent spreading of African swine fever (ASF). The ASF is fatal to pigs, and the only way to prevent from infection is mass culls. 

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