Steps have been intensified to curb the spread of African swine fever after the disease was reported at two sites in Wayanad district, Minister for Animal Husbandry J. Chinchurani has said.
The disease was confirmed on Friday after samples of dead animals from two pig farms at Mananthavady tested positive at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases at Bhopal.
The Minister said officials of the Revenue, Health, Animal husbandry, State Goods and Service Tax, Police, and Forest departments would jointly adopt steps to arrest the spread of the disease. Control and surveillance at border check-posts would be strengthened —transportation of pig, pork, and value-added pork products inside the State and from outside is banned.
