African swine fever could become endemic after its reintroduction in Spain due to the presence of a type of tick.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is now fighting to get countries to accept regionalization, as China has recently done, allowing the market to be maintained, except for products coming from Barcelona. No case of ASF detected in pig farms Luis Planas stated that the priority is to prevent contagion in the farms, which would result in the sacrifice of the entire pig population. “We are very well coordinated to prevent this from happening,” he said. He also emphasized that the sector is prepared to contain the disease, as biosecurity measures are in the protocols and this is not a new situation. Thus, the authorities are now fighting to isolate any farm from the focus, for which odor repellents have been purchased with the aim of reducing the risk of contact between wild boars and pig farms, reports Infobae. There are nine confirmed cases of ASF in Spain, all of them in wild boars and within the same radius of impact, in the municipality of Cerdanyola del Vallés ...