Following Taiwan's first confirmed case of African Swine Fever (ASF) nucleic acid positivity, this is no “minor cold” — it marks the “darkest twelve hours” for Taiwan's livestock industry.
The government immediately imposed a nationwide transport and slaughter ban, underscoring the gravity of the crisis.
To grasp its severity, we only need to recall the 1997 Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak, which cost Taiwan NT$170 billion, wiped out our pork export market, and took over a decade to recover from.
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