African swine fever reaches Bali

Bali: Hundreds of pigs have died from African swine fever in Bali, authorities said, marking the Indonesian holiday island’s first recorded outbreak and after the virus claimed 30,000 hogs in Sumatra.

Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana, Bali’s agriculture and food security agency chief, said yesterday that nearly 900 pigs succumbed to swine fever since mid-December.