ROME, Italy — A thousand pigs will be slaughtered after two cases of swine fever were detected on a farm in Rome’s Lazio region, officials said Friday, spurring fears of a blow to the country’s pork industry.
Italy, with about 8.9 million pigs, is the seventh biggest pork producer in the European Union, representing an eight-billion-euro industry, according to the agricultural association Confagricoltura. African swine fever does not affect humans but is contagious and fatal for pigs and their wild relatives and an outbreak is potentially devastating for the pork industry, experts say.
The disease has existed in Africa for decades. In a December 3 report on the virus, the World Organisation for Animal Health said ASF had been reported in 32 countries in five world regions since January 2020.In western Europe, the virus was reported in Belgium in 2018, prompting China to ban all imports of Belgian pork.
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