Pig infected with African swine fever ‘unlikely to have contracted virus before it entered Hong Kong’ says mainland Chinese agency

Mainland Chinese authorities have claimed a pig from Guangdong province that became Hong Kong’s first case of African swine fever was unlikely to have contracted the virus before it reached the city.The General Administration of Customs, a mainland agency involved in the supply of agricultural produce to Hong Kong, said on Wednesday the farm the pig came from had suffered no abnormal animal deaths recently and concluded the possibility the animal had been infected before arriving in the city…