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African swine fever outbreak spreads in Philippines' southern provinces

Published 02/09/2020, 02:55 PM
Updated 02/09/2020, 02:56 PM
African swine fever outbreak spreads in Philippines' southern provinces

MANILA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The Philippines confirmed on
Sunday that African swine fever infections had spread in the
south of the country, which accounts for nearly a third of the
nation's 12.8 million pig herd.
Additional cases have also been identified in some northern
provinces, the Department of Agriculture said.
The world's 10th-largest pork consumer and seventh-biggest
pork importer reported its first-ever African swine fever
outbreaks in September 2019 in some backyard farms near the
capital Manila on the northern island of Luzon. But a week ago, the agricultural department said samples
from pigs in the southern province of Davao Occidental had
tested positive for the highly contagious disease, which kills
pigs but is not harmful to humans. On Sunday, the department said 407 pigs had been culled in
two villages, with a swine population of 2,398, in Davao City on
the southern island of Mindanao. The island had a swine herd of
around 3.7 million as of Jan. 1, government data shows, or 29%
of the country's total.
Agriculture Secretary William Dar had consulted Mindanao
government officials and hog industry leaders to effectively
manage and contain the outbreak, the department said in a
statement.
The Davao Occidental outbreak may have been triggered by
food waste from pork products from Indonesia, or food brought
home by residents from disease-hit areas in Luzon, the
agricultural department said.
More cases have recently been reported in some Luzon
provinces, including Pangasinan, which was among the areas hit
last year, and in Kalinga and Benguet provinces.
Dar has said pork smuggled from China, where millions of
pigs have been culled because of the disease, could be behind
the first outbreak in the Philippines.

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