{"id":10079,"date":"2019-10-13T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/13\/african-swine-fever-the-deadly-virus-at-australias-doorstep"},"modified":"2019-10-13T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:00:43","slug":"african-swine-fever-the-deadly-virus-that-has-landed-on-australias-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10079","title":{"rendered":"African swine fever: the deadly virus that has landed on Australia&#8217;s doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly virus wreaking havoc in Asia has been detected in Timor-Leste, just 680km north of Darwin<\/p>\n<p>One month ago a particularly virulent strain of African swine fever \u2013 which has been wreaking havoc in Asia since it was detected in China last year and could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/18\/china-auction-pork-reserves\">potentially kill up to 25% of the world\u2019s pig population<\/a> \u2013 landed on Australia\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>The disease was detected just 680km north of Darwin, in Timor-Leste. Australian biosecurity agencies which had been screening major airports and mail distributors for illegally imported pork products redoubled their efforts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/13\/african-swine-fever-the-deadly-virus-at-australias-doorstep\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly virus wreaking havoc in Asia has been detected in Timor-Leste, just 680km north of DarwinOne month ago a particularly virulent strain of African swine fever \u2013 which has been wreaking havoc in Asia since it was detected in China last year and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,586,41,43,775,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-animal-welfare","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-swine-flu","category-timor-leste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}