"We’re on red alert for the pig virus," Anan Suwannarat, the permanent secretary in the Agriculture Ministry, said in an interview. The authorities have detected contaminated pork products at airports and borders, but have not yet found any cases at farms. The strain of African swine fever spreading in Asia is undeniably nasty, killing virtually every pig it infects by a haemorrhagic illness reminiscent of Ebola in humans. It doesn’t import live hogs or pork meat, according to Mr Cheerasak, and now visitors are not permitted to bring processed pork products into the country. It has confiscated pork products at its airports and borders 550 times since August, detecting the virus 43 times, according to the Livestock Department.

Source: Bangkok Post May 20, 2019 08:03 UTC