Paris — It will take years for China to contain the deadly African swine fever virus that has spread throughout the country, which is the world’s biggest pork producer, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), said in Paris. 

China has been struggling to control the epidemic, which some analysts predict could see up to 200-million pigs die or be culled in 2019 , causing a huge shortage of pork locally and have an economic effect on the meat and feed industry globally...

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