President and Agriculture Secretary Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. has directed the Department of Agriculture’s Western Visayas office to test every pig breeding facility in the region to stop the spread of the African Swine Fever .
According to Marcos, every precaution to stop its spread has already been taken, including a prohibition on the consumption of pork in infected areas. Marcos noted that the infection’s apparent ability to spread via mosquitoes presents one of the difficulties in treating it.
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