South Korea is ramping up its disinfection efforts against African swine fever as the country confirmed its eighth CONFIRMED case of the animal disease.<br /> With FIVE new suspected cases reported on Thursday,... one case at a pig farm in Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, came back positive.<br />Two suspected cases,... one in Yangju, a city close to Seoul, and the other in Yeongcheon, Gyeongsangbukdo Province, turned out negative,... while two others are still being analyzed. <br />All the confirmed cases of African swine fever have been detected in regions relatively close to North Korea,.... such as the northern areas of Gyeonggi-do Province and Incheon.<br />The highly contagious disease is harmless to humans but fatal to pigs.<br />It's not clear how the disease entered South Korea, but a case was reported in North Korea back in May, so authorities are inspecting inter-Korean waterways. <br />
