Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
A worker sweeps out a pen at a pig farm in Langfang, Hebei province, China, on April 1. Gilles Sabrie / Bloomberg
U.S. authorities have started active preparations in response to the rising threat of an outbreak of African swine fever, the deadly disease that has decimated the Chinese pig population and is spreading across Asia.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service led a series of functional exercises and drills late last month, working off a scenario of an outbreak of the virus in Mississippi, which traveled across state lines before it was discovered. Fourteen states participated in the drill.
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