US EditionThe Swine Fever Has Not Left the Outbreak Area, with 13 Infected Feral Pigs
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The outbreak of African swine fever (PPA) detected nine days ago in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona) continues to be controlled in the area of the outbreak of infection, an area in which about a hundred dead boars have been found, of which only 13 have been positive for the time being in the disease virus. The Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Councillor, Oscar Ordeig, reported this Sunday in a press conference that these data reveal t…
Three decades after the practice of eradication of African swine fever (APP) in Spain, the appearance of several wild boars killed and other positives in the mountains of Barcelona have caused all the alarms, already causing no less damage in the short term to one of the most important economic sectors of our country. Readers of THE OBJECTIVE have found timely information in recent days of the danger of an expansion of a disease on which there i…
The tracking dogs deployed in the operation against African swine fever (PPA) in Catalonia have become a key piece to locate carcasses of wild boar within the infected area and throughout its control perimeter that already affects 91 municipalities. The presence of these remains is one of the main factors of transmission of the virus, so its detection and rapid removal is essential to stop its expansion.Keep reading....
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Oscar Ordeig, has stated that the "main objectives" for the containment of African swine fever (PPA) have been met and has confirmed that there are no positives outside the 6-kilometre radius around Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona). [...] The entry The Generalitat states that the "main objectives" for the containment of swine fever have been met first appears in Forb…
The health alarm created by the appearance of feral pigs contaminated with African swine fever in the province of Barcelona has come to show how far some of the miseries of politics go. It turns out that, overwhelmed by the situation, the Catalan Generality has been forced to seek help from the UME, the Military Emergency Unit that, as its name indicates, belongs to the Spanish Army.
Next week, approximately 3,000 healthy pigs from 39 farms located within the 20-kilometer surveillance zone surrounding the outbreak of African swine fever will be culled. This decision was made by the Catalan government in Spain, in coordination with the local pig farming sector. This measure follows an investigation launched by the Ministry of Agriculture into the outbreak. It was confirmed that the strain does not match the one circulating in…
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