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Spain Not Ruling Out Lab Leak as Cause of Swine Fever Outbreak

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Spain’s government said Friday it had not ruled out an accidental laboratory leak as the cause of an outbreak of African swine fever that has rocked the country’s lucrative pork industry.

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The Spanish government announced Friday that "does not exclude" the possibility of an accident from a laboratory as the origin of African porcine fish found at the end of November in Catalonia, a national territory in the last three decades, reports AFP.

·Romania
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On Friday, the Spanish government assured "not to exclude" the possibility of an accidental leak from a laboratory as the origin of the outbreak of African swine fever (APF) discovered in Catalonia at the end of November, a first on national soil since 1994.Innocent for humans, African swine fever (APF) is a viral haemorrhagic disease whose mortality rate is close to 100% for pigs and wild boars. Since 28 November, 13 cases of this disease have …

·Paris, France
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The Spanish government stated on this Saturday that "it does not exclude" the possibility that the African swine fever outbreak detected in rivals near Barcelona, the first case of the disease identified in the country since 1994, has come from an accident in the laboratory. Caution: Fymosis surgery increased by more than 80% in less than 10 to 19 years in Brazil; it understands the reason ‘Ozempic Body’: See the celebrations that radically chan…

·Brazil
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New research route to determine the origin of the viral outbreak of African swine fever detected in the wild boars of Collserola Park, in the province of Barcelona. In addition to the hypothesis of food contamination as the initial cause of PPA in Catalonia, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food announced this Friday that it will investigate whether the virus has left a laboratory. The movement comes after receiving a report communicat…

·Spain
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A report from the Animal Health Centre warns that the virus strain does not match those circulating in the EU and is often used in experimental facilities for vaccines and other studies

·Spain
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ondacero.es broke the news in on Friday, December 5, 2025.
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