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PRO/AH> African swine fever – Africa (06): Nigeria (LA,OG) domestic

African Swine Fever -- NigeriaHundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an explosion of African swine fever (ASF). The outbreak began around Lagos and parts of neighbouring Ogun state earlier this year [2020], pig farmers say, but has now spread to many other parts of the country.In the absence of official data [but see OIE report at http://promedmail.org/post/20200618.7480740], farmers who spoke to the Guardian estimated that nearly a million pigs had been Read more [...]