The ASF Re-emerging: Manny are Losing Jobs

African Swine Fever (ASF) is a disease that

can’t hurt humans instead it effects pigs. Many are losing
their jobs. Is it something to be worried or just but a
normal news?
ASF is caused by a virus that causes a
hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic
pigs; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly
as a week after infection. The first location that ASF
targeted was Rodrigez Rizal, next, Antipolo, then,
Bulacan, also, Pampanga, lastly, Nueva Ecija. There is no
approved vaccine to this disease. The symptoms of ASF is
high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sometimes bloody, red or
blue colored skin particularly around its mouth and ears,
coughing, and difficulty of breathing, dead within 10
days. It is also called by feeding pig kitchen waste,
contact with contaminated equipment. Call a veterinarian
if you see ASF. Do not move animals from the farm.
Always change clothes and footwear after leaving the
farm. Don’t allow your pig to have contact a wild pig, and
never feed kitchen waste to pigs.