News Forum - Move Forward MP accuses government of hiding spread of African Swine Fever

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A Move Forward MP accused the government of covering up the spread of African Swine Fever in a parliamentary debate yesterday. The MP, Padipat Suntiphada, said ASF spread across the country in 2020 as a direct result of the government covering it up when it first hit in 2019. When the disease was first discovered, 300,000 pigs died either from the disease, or from farmers culling them to stop the disease from spreading. In the past, Thai authorities said the deaths were from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. Padipat said vetrinary deans had tested the dead pigs and found ASF, […]

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