The North Korean story posted yesterday didn't get a response but I thought it was pretty amazing. Vietnam is having this problem too. Apparently, if you contract the swine flue, you are probably going to die! I didn't know it was that serious.
Vietnam culls 2 million pigs, urges whole nation to fight swine fever
Khanh Vu
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam said on Friday it has culled 2 million pigs in a bid to curb an outbreak of deadly African swine fever and called on the entire nation to join the fight against the rapidly spreading disease.
The virus had spread to 48 of the country’s 63 provinces, agriculture minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong said at a meeting of parliament, upping the number of pigs culled from 1.7 million less than a week ago.
Pork accounts for three-quarters of total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million people where most of its 30 million farm-raised pigs are consumed domestically.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-swinefever-idUSKCN1T10P7
3 quarters of meat consumption per the last paragraph is pork. That certainly is a lot, not chicken or beef???
