UPLB’s swine unit is closed for disinfection and the farm will stay empty until repopulation is deemed safe, like when a vaccine becomes available.
But contrary to information from the provincial veterinary office that about 200 pigs were affected by the ASF, only 94 commercial and native pigs under UPLB’s Institute of Animal Science were culled, as a mitigating measure against the virus spread.
Rommel Sulabo, IAS director, said the pigs were actually “healthy, with no signs typical of ASF,” like fever or loss of appetite, but nevertheless had to be depopulated in early July, amid sporadic reports of infection in backyard farms in surrounding villages in Los Baños town.UPLB’s swine unit is closed for disinfection and the farm will stay empty until repopulation is deemed safe, like when a vaccine becomes available, he said.
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