BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Monday a new case of African swine fever was found in piglets illegally transported to the Inner Mongolia region.

The outbreak, detected in a herd of 200 piglets on a farm in Ordos city in the region, has killed 92 of the animals.

China has reported several new cases of the deadly African swine fever disease this month.

(Reporting by Hallie Gu and Shivani Singh; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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