US EditionChina bans pork imports from Barcelona after Spain's swine fever outbreak
- African Swine Fever was found in two wild boars near Barcelona, marking the first case in Spain since 1994, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
- Spain has suspended pork exports and activated control protocols, defining a 20-kilometer perimeter around the infected area, according to Catalan officials.
- The economic impact from the virus could be significant for Spain's pork sector, stated the Agriculture Minister of Catalonia, Oscar Ordeig.
- The European Food Safety Authority noted that the virus can take years to eradicate, with no vaccines or cures available.
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China bans pork imports from Barcelona after Spain's swine fever outbreak
China has banned pork imports from Barcelona province after Spain detected its first case of African swine fever in three decades in two wild boar found dead in the area, a Chinese Customs document seen by Reuters showed.
Spain took measures on Saturday to mitigate the economic impact of an outbreak of African swine fever, a day after the first cases in three decades were announced in the Catalonia region.
No one knows very well how the outbreak originated. If the first boar was intoxicated by eating from the garbage, if someone fed them with some contaminated meat product, or if they had contact with some specimen that crossed the Spanish border — more unlikely, because there are no cases detected in France or Portugal — but the African Swine Peste (PPA) has become a major concern for both the Government and the meat industry.
Faced with the appearance of several cases of wild boar infected by swine fever in Spain, the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, has appeared this Saturday before...
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