US EditionFatal Cases of African Swine Fever Worry Local Pork Industry
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Catalonia detects two wild boars killed by the disease, which can kill all pigs on a farm in days. Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom have already banned imports of Spanish meat, while China has chosen to limit only those from the province of Barcelona
The two cases of African swine fever (PPA) recently detected in the area of Bellaterra (Barcelona), this Friday, have put the national pig sector at risk. Spain is one of the largest exporters of pork in the world. And China, a key customer for Spanish swine, is already assessing the situation and is waiting for more information to decide whether to paralyze exports to the detected cases. In 2024, 540,000 tons of pork were sold to the Asian gian…
The Generalitat deploys a surveillance zone within a radius of 20 kilometers around the place where the two wild boars killed by contagion have been located
The authorities have set a perimeter of control after the two positives in dead boars and review all farms in the environment.
The swine fever has returned to Spain more than 31 years after the last case was detected. This was confirmed this morning by the Ministry of Agriculture following the notification of the veterinary services of the Generalitat de Catalunya, which detected two positive wild boars to the PPA virus (African swine fever) in Bellaterra (Barcelona), where they were found dead on 26 November. Later, the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Algete (Madrid) …
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