Source: MORNING AG CLIPS 1/29/19

A swine fever epidemic plaguing a central Japan prefecture since last September is continuing to rage with a seventh case identified Tuesday, leading to a cull of 1,600 pigs, local authorities said. After tests confirmed the fresh case at a farm in the city of Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, prefectural officials requested the dispatch of Ground Self-Defense Force troops to cull and bury the pigs.

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