First published at 05:05 UTC on May 19th, 2022.
Update on African Swine Fever (ASF) affecting pig farming industry.
🇮🇹 Three more cases of ASF have been detected in wild boar in Rome. The EU told Italy to establish an infected zone for ASF.
🇰🇷 Korea will step up quarantine efforts at major air…
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Update on African Swine Fever (ASF) affecting pig farming industry.
🇮🇹 Three more cases of ASF have been detected in wild boar in Rome. The EU told Italy to establish an infected zone for ASF.
🇰🇷 Korea will step up quarantine efforts at major airports and harbors to prevent ASF and other contagious animal diseases from entering the country.
🇮🇳 India -ASF outbreak reported in Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya, prompting the authorities to ban sale of pigs in the affected areas.
🇵🇠Philippines, Zamboanga City – Govt's African ASF task force has placed two villages under lockdown and commenced the depopulation of pigs. Philippine-developed ASF PCR Detection Kit being validated. Country's clinical study on ASF vaccine enters next phase.
ASF doesn’t infect people, but it is readily passed from one pig to another by direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected pig.
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