Shizuoka Prefecture announced on the 5th that it has begun culling approximately 1,000 of the 1,200 pigs being raised at a pig farm in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where a case of classical swine fever (CSF) was confirmed. According to the prefecture, this is the first time in Japan that the "selective culling" method, introduced by the revised Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals in May, has been applied.
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Shizuoka Prefecture announced on the 5th that it has begun culling approximately 1,000 of the 1,200 pigs being raised at a pig farm in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where a case of classical swine fever (CSF) was confirmed. According to the prefecture, this is the first time in Japan that the "selective culling" method, introduced by the revised Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals in May, has been applied.