Manila to slaughter 6,000 pigs to stop Ebola spread

Cybergal · Feb 23, 2009

Manila to slaughter 6,000 pigs to stop Ebola spread

2/23/09

MANILA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The Philippines will slaughter 6,000 pigs at a hog farm north of the capital Manila to prevent the spread of the Ebola-Reston virus, health and farm officials said on Monday.

But the government has lifted a quarantine on a second hog farm after tests by experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and Food and the Agriculture Organisation (FAO) showed no more signs of the disease.

The country has more than 13 million heads of swine and the discovery of Ebola-Reston on two hog farms north of Manila was isolated, the government said.

"There is ongoing viral transmission in Bulacan ... as a precautionary measure, depopulation will be carried out in the Bulacan farm," Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters, referring to the farm just north of Manila.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSMAN392763
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LoneSnake · Feb 23, 2009

Ebola Hemmoragic Fever, one of the worst diseases ever created, but I thought that it was contained to Africa only

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