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Pigs are hosed down inside a backyard hog raiser's pen. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File

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Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

Jessica Fenol

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172378598386520190916-pigs-hosed-down-bulacan-jc-20.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Pigs are hosed down inside a backyard hog raiser&#x27;s pen. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/FilePigs are hosed down inside a backyard hog raiser&#x27;s pen. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Pigs are hosed down inside a backyard hog raiser&#x27;s pen.<em> Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA -- A total of 147 hogs intercepted at a <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">checkpoint in Quezon City tested positive for African Swine Fever or ASF, an official said on Friday. </span> </span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Two delivery trucks carrying the hogs were intercepted for falsified documents at the <span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Department of Agriculture (DA) and Bureau of Animal Industry’s checkpoint in<span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Mindanao Avenue, said DA Assistant Secretary <span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arnel De Mesa. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The hogs were also showing signs of ASF, he added.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Yung dalawang trucks na nahuli na walang kaukulang papel, parehas galing sa Sariaya papuntang Pangasinan destination eventually. [The pigs] turned out to be positive sa ASF upon conduct ng laboratory tests,&quot; <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">De Mesa said in a press briefing.</span> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">He said authorities were still waiting for the ASF test results on 14 hogs loaded in a third truck. </p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space-collapse:preserve"> </span></div><p style="text-align:left">Infected hogs will be culled and buried at a DA-BAI site, he said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/8/15/da-eyes-rollout-of-asf-vaccines-next-week-1647">• DA eyes rollout of ASF vaccines next week</a></div><p>The DA said border controls were set up in several areas to stop the spread of ASF from an outbreak, particularly in Batangas.</p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Ito&#x27;y patunay lang na mabisang paraang ang border control, kung hindi ito napigilan pupunta sa destination nila that might cause yung pagkalat pa Lalo ng ASF,” <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> De Mesa</span> said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/8/12/no-pork-shortage-price-hike-seen-amid-asf-outbreak-in-parts-of-batangas-1426">• No pork shortage, price hike seen amid ASF outbreak in parts of Batangas</a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The agency recently said it could begin rolling out vaccines against ASF as early as next week.  It added that there was no need yet to declare a state of calamity due to the Luzon outbreak.<br/><br/></p><p>ASF<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> is not harmful to humans but causes hemorrhagic fever in pigs that almost always ends in death.</span></p><div> </div><div><strong> RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pto5nSXXplQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Upon inspection by the Bureau of Animal Industry, the drivers of the 2 delivery trucks transporting the pigs showed fake documents.</p>

Upon inspection by the Bureau of Animal Industry, the drivers of the 2 delivery trucks transporting the pigs showed fake documents.

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147 pigs with African swine fever seized at Quezon City checkpoint

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

Jessica Fenol,

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Published Aug 16, 2024 01:46 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 16, 2024 04:25 PM PHT

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