date:Jun 11, 2014
control zones, where sterilization and other measures would be taken to prevent PED from spreading.
Details of the special zone designation system will be worked out through discussions with experts. The ministry will also consider steps to help out farms hit by PED outbreaks.
More than 50 per cent of newborn pigs that contract the disease are likely to die, experts say.
In Japan, the first PED infections in seven years were confirmed in October 2013. Between then and 1 June, more than 220,0