On March 9th, a large number of dead pigs appeared floating on the Huangpu River in the Songjiang district of Shanghai. At present, already over 1200 swine have been fished out, including suckling pigs as well as adult pigs weighing over hundreds of kilograms. It has been tentatively determined that these dead pigs come upstream from the Zhejiang province. Netizens joked these pigs had “angrily jumped into the river” because they were unhappy with pollution.
Shanghai Municipal Agriculture Commission announced on the 11th that the dead pigs floating in Huangpu River have undergone sampling and testing, one sample testing positive for porcine circovirus, and the other specimens all negative. Porcine circovirus disease is caused by porcine circovirus type 2, a disease that has broken out relatively frequently in recent years. It is not considered a zoonosis disease, which transmits between humans and animals.