US EditionLab Leak in Spain? A Wake-up Call for Global Biosafety
The outbreak involves a lab strain of African swine fever virus, threatening Spain's $10 billion pork export industry and raising biosafety concerns.
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Lab leak in Spain? A wake-up call for global biosafety
African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes fatal disease in wild and domestic pigs. Thankfully, ASFV does not cause disease in people, but it can be economically devastating for commercial pork producers. Spain is currently experiencing an outbreak of African swine fever in wild boars, its first since 1994. As a threat to Spain’s $10 billion annual pork export industry, local authorities are taking this outbreak extremely seriously. Yet, it illustr…
All the hypotheses remain on the table. The audit carried out to the Research Center in Animal Health (CReSA) – the laboratory of the Generalitat pointed out by the alleged escape of swine fever – has not reached any conclusion on the origin of the outbreak, as explained this Monday by the advisor of Livestock, Oscar Ordeig, during a visit to the company Càrniques Juià, in Girona. Only the exhaustive comparison of the DNA of the viruses inside a…
The detection of several cases of African swine fever (PPA) in feral pigs in the Collserola mountain range has triggered alarms. The immediate priority is to contain the spread of the virus and prevent it from reaching pig farms, where the economic consequences for the sector could be devastating. For now, the control measures applied essentially replicate those previously taken in other European countries that previously affronted the PPP, such…
The Director General of Health of Agro-Food Production and Animal Welfare of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Emilio García Muro, explained this Monday to the national veterinary delegates of the more than 180 member countries of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OMSA) the epidemiological situation of African swine fever [...] The entry Spain addresses with the World Organisation for Animal Health the control measures for…
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