African Swine Fever -- Philippines
Another town in Ilocos Norte has been added to the red zone map of African swine fever (ASF) after 2 barangays [village] in Banna town were found to have been infected with the highly contagious viral disease.
Municipal agriculturist Alan Palaspas confirmed this in a radio interview on Thursday [19 Aug 2021] as he reported there are 220 hogs in Barangay Crispina and 424 in Barangay Valdez which needed to be culled to arrest the further spread of ASF to nearby villages and towns.
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Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8614344&promed&0
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