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TB and malaria drugs could hold key to fighting African swine fever, Chinese scientists say



Drugs developed to fight tuberculosis or malaria could help fight African swine fever, according to China’s top viral research agencies.There is currently no cure for swine fever, which has devastated China’s domestic herds and caused a 70 per cent rise in pork prices due to the resulting shortages.Since the first reported detection of the virus last summer, more than 1 million pigs have been culled, according to the Chinese government’s statistics.Now the pandemic has spread to farms in every…



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