MANILA: Blood samples taken from pigs in a southern province in the Philippines, the world's 10th-largest pork consumer, tested positive for the African swine fever virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Sunday (Feb 2).
It was the first reported case of African swine fever infections in Davao Occidental province and elsewhere in Mindanao, the southern island of the South-East Asian nation.
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