There has been an outbreak of the African swine fever in the Amathole District in the Eastern Cape.
The virus has been detected for the first time in three years in the province.
The Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Department said investigations and post-mortems are underway in the villages where about 50 pigs died.
The villages have now been quarantined and no pigs are allowed to move in or out of the affected areas.
African swine fever is a highly contagious disease that kills almost all infected pigs.
It’s not regarded as a risk to people and isn’t a public health threat. Gauteng authorities are warning farmers of this outbreak of African swine fever.
In April, Daveyton informal pig farmers reported the unusual deaths of pigs brought in from Mpumalanga.
More outbreaks were reported in May, in Vanderbijlpark.
The department is encouraging farmers to take precautionary measures.
This includes not feeding pigs leftover food and not buying pigs of unknown origin.
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King Goodwill Zwelithini has called on those who believe indigenous medicine can beat Covid-19 to work with medical researchers in the fight against the pandemic. In his first address since the lockdown was enacted and the virus reached SA, the king called for a unified approach against the pandemic via a Facebook broadcast on Saturday.
King Zwelithini said while medical researchers are working around the clock for a vaccine, people are using their own ways of dealing with the flu, which they believe in but are yet to be scientifically proven. If you have knowledge (indigenous) share it with them (doctors) because maybe you can bring a solution,” he said. continue reading
Source – eNCA
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