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Russia: African swine fever cull toll rises

Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, is reporting that vets in southern Russia's Stavropol Territory plan to cull a total of 12,000 pigs in an area suffering from an outbreak of African swine fever. The current cull total stands at over 8,000 pigs.

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