AGRICULTURE NEWS - Gauteng’s Department of Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment is scrambling to contain yet another outbreak of African swine fever (ASF).
This time the outbreak has been reported in what the department’s MEC, Dr Kgosientso Ramokgopa, described as “an informal set-up” in the Swanieville area on the West Rand.
A statement issued by Ramokgopa, said that approximately 1 000 pigs belonging to about five Swanieville pig owners would soon be culled in an attempt to prevent this disease from spreading further afield.
The World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) website describes ASF as a highly contagious haemorrhagic viral disease of domestic and wild pigs that is responsible for serious economic and production losses.
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