* China has confirmed two cases of African swine fever in the northern provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on Sunday night * The Gansu case was detected in two trucks transporting 320 piglets to Minqin county, with three piglets dead * The Shaanxi outbreak occurred in a small farm with 49 hogs that had bought piglets from another province. There were 39 pigs killed in the outbreak * The agriculture ministry said that it has sent inspectors to carry out special checks on African swine fever in Gansu and Shaanxi (Reporting by Muyu Xu and Dominique Patton; Editing by Christian Schmollinger) Source