Local officials ramp up efforts to stop the disease from spreading from a town and infecting over half a million hogs on Negros Island
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The disease, if not contained, has the potential to wreak havoc again on the hog industries of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, two provinces on the island. “We don’t want to return to a situation like last year, when scores of our hogs in Negros Oriental were wiped out by ASF and related diseases like hog cholera,” Sagarbarria said.
“We are currently awaiting the results to determine whether ASF-infected pigs are present outside Valencia. Depending on the findings, additional stringent measures may be imposed,” Rafal said., local officials raised the ASF alert status, too, setting up checkpoints in strategic areas to prevent hogs and pork from being transported from Negros Oriental, according to Placeda Lemana, provincial veterinarian.
Lemana said security at various ports in the province has also been stepped up, adding that complacency was not an option amid the current ASF threat.
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