African swine fever deaths rise to 70,000; over 40,000 pigs at risk

This developed as the ASF, a fatal animal disease among hogs, already crept into the third district of the country’s capital, Manila, and continues to kill more hogs in Bulacan and Pampanga.

Of these areas, Bulacan and Pampanga were the hardest hit, recording more than 20,000 hog deaths each. BAI told the OIE that the source of these outbreaks has remained “unknown or inconclusive,” but it also suspects that the cause of the spread are “illegal movement of animals, swill feeding, and fomites .”

So far, measures applied by the Philippine government to control the spread of the virus include movement control inside the country; surveillance outside containment and/or protection zone; surveillance within containment and/or protection zone; screening; quarantine; official destruction of animal products; official disposal of carcasses, by-products and waste; stamping out; zoning; disinfection; ante and post-mortem inspections; and prohibiting vaccination.

The problem, he said, is that the ASF Crisis Management Team, led by the Department of Agriculture , couldn’t necessarily go after the smugglers and illegal meat traders with a lawsuit.

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