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Spain to slaught 30,000 pigs amid swine fever control measures
MADRID, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The government of Spain's Catalan region has reached an agreement with the livestock sector to send about 30,000 healthy pigs from the surveillance area of a recent African swine fever outbreak to a designated slaughterhouse, Spanish media reported on Friday. Read full story
The Generalitat of Catalonia and the representatives of the pig farming sector have reached an agreement that from next week some 30,000 healthy pigs will be slaughtered on farms close to the outbreak of swine fever detected in this autonomous community. The measure affects 39 livestock farms that are located on the 20 km surveillance perimeter around the focus, located in the Collserola mountain range, in the province of Barcelona. Sources of t…
The Catalan government has reached an agreement with representatives of the pig sector to start slaughtering the healthy pigs from the farms located next week.
It is the first time in the last 30 years when Spain faces this devastating viral disease for pigs and mice, but harmless to humans. From the confirmation of the first case, on 28 November, 13 animals have been identified and the authorities have mobilized including military forces for the control of the spread of the virus.A virus that is circulating in EuropeMinister of Agriculture has transmitted that will trigger a new investigation of the s…
Spain to slaughter 30,000 pigs amid swine fever control measures
The government of Spain's Catalan region has reached an agreement with the livestock sector to send about 30,000 healthy pigs from the surveillance area of a recent African swine fever outbreak to a designated slaughterhouse, reported Xinhua, quoting Spanish media on Friday. The measure covers 39 farms located within a 20-km monitoring zone around confirmed cases detected in wild boar near Barcelona, reported El Pais and El Diario. Officials emp…
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The Catalan Government has reached an agreement with representatives of the pig sector to start slaughtering from next week the healthy pigs of the farms located in the surveillance zone of the outbreak of African swine fever in Barcelona. The measure, claimed on Thursday by Macrolleida (the pig reference auction), affects about 30,000 pigs of the 39 farms located on the 20 km surveillance perimeter and will be carried out to prevent the expansi…
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