ASF hits another Leyte town
MANILA, Philippines — African swine fever (ASF) has spread to another town in Leyte.
Laboratory results personally handed by Department of Agriculture-Eastern Visayas director Angel Enriquez to Burauen Mayor Juanito Renomeron on Thursday showed that samples from Barangay Pawa were affected by the swine disease.
Renomeron said hogs within the 500-meter radius of confirmed cases would be culled as a precautionary measure.
He also extended the implementation of his executive order creating a task force on animal-borne diseases and banning the entry of hogs, pork and processed meat from other areas.
Annalou Detablan of the municipal agriculturist office appealed to hog raisers and the public to cooperate in the implementation of quarantine measures.
Hog farms in Abuyog, La Paz, Javier, Dulag, MacArthur, Tanauan and Palo towns had earlier been hit by ASF.
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