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 The disease was found in two counties and one district of the city
of Linzhi, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a
statement; Linzhi is in southeastern Tibet near the border with
India.
A total of 55 pigs have so far been killed in the Tibet outbreak, it
added.
China, home to the world's largest hog herd, has reported well over
100 outbreaks of the highly contagious disease across the country
since last August, although remote, high-altitude Tibet had
previously remained untouched.
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The southern island province of Hainan, as well as China's special
administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, have yet to report
any African swine fever cases.
(Reporting by Tom Daly; editing by Richard Pullin)
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