Swine Fever Found in 1 Sample

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, Jan 11 (TNA) – The Department of Livestock Development has detected the African swine fever (ASF) in a sample collected from a slaughterhouse in Nakhon Pathom province and is looking for the source of the disease.

 

Sorawit Thaneeto, director-general of the department, said that it collected 309 samples of pig blood and surface swabs at farms and slaughterhouses in Ratchaburi and Nakhon Pathom over the past weekend for tests for ASF.

 

The department’s National Institute of Animal Health tested the samples and found one of them which was collected at a slaughterhouse in Nakhon Pathom had ASF.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-859708

 

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[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Sorawit Thaneeto, director-general of the department, said that it collected 309 samples of pig blood

And found one positive... yeah okay

So lets roll that out nationwide... begs the question.... why the pork price hike?