US EditionSpain deploys military to contain African swine fever near Barcelona
Authorities deployed 117 military personnel and multiple agencies to contain African swine fever, blocking about one-third of Spain’s pork export certificates to 104 countries.
- On Dec 2 a European Commission taskforce of vets began work in Barcelona to help contain an African swine fever outbreak, authorities said.
- Officials suspect contaminated food waste introduced ASF, possibly a discarded sandwich, after wild boars were found near highway rest-area bins and traffic routes.
- On December 1, the Unidad Militar de Emergencias deployed 117 personnel and 25 vehicles to seal a six-kilometre exclusion zone and patrol a 20-kilometre surveillance radius around Collserola natural park, using drones, infrared tech, and detection dogs.
- About one-third of Spain's pork export certificates, covering 400 certificates to 104 countries, have been blocked as China limited imports from the Barcelona area while Taiwan, Mexico and Japan suspended Spanish pork imports.
- Officials say this coming week is critical as new cases could widen quarantine, with Catalonia estimating �8 billion in losses while none of the 39 farms have tested positive.
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Spain has deployed a military emergency unit to help fight African swine fever – a discarded sandwich could have caused the problem. Two wild boars have died in recent days.
Hundreds of police, soldiers and forest rangers have been deployed to the Barcelona area in Spain after nine dead wild boars were found with confirmed African swine fever. A six-kilometer safety zone has been set up in the municipality of Bellaterra. Spain is the largest pork producer in the EU.
The Financial Times reports that African swine fever has reached Spain, and foreign countries have blocked nearly a third of the exports of Europe's largest pork producer.
Spanish police and soldiers track boars amid swine fever outbreak | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
BARCELONA/MADRID >> Spanish police, soldiers and park rangers are racing to identify wild boars that might be infected with African swine fever and prevent the disease from crossing into the country’s domestic herd, which is central to its multi-billion-euro pork export industry.
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