Spain’s Central Veterinary Laboratory in Madrid has confirmed three more wild boars have tested positive for African swine ...

There is no medicine for this disease, nor will one be available in the near future, meaning authorities have to resort to medieval measures to counter a plague ...

Spain has called in its military to help contain an outbreak of African swine fever near Barcelona, a move aimed at protecting the country’s multi-billion-euro pork export industry. Officials suspect ...

Spanish police searched a state-funded laboratory near Barcelona on Thursday as part of an investigation into the origin of ...

Spain has raised the African swine fever case count from two to nine in a sign its first outbreak of the disease in more than three decades is worsening, threatening shipments from one of the world’s ...

The virus is harmless to humans, but spreads rapidly among pigs and wild boar. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

1/2 REUTERS/SUSANA VERA / APRIL 8 Iberian ham legs hang at the Gourmets Fair in Madrid, Spain. MADRID >> Eight more wild boar with suspected cases of African swine fever were discovered near Barcelona ...

Spain's military was deployed on Monday to contain an African swine fever outbreak near Barcelona which officials suspect may have been triggered by a wild boar eating contaminated food such as a ...

Spain has called in the military to help contain an outbreak of a deadly virus affecting pigs, which may have started from a contaminated sandwich. Soldiers have been deployed in a desperate effort to ...

The number of wild boar testing positive for African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in northern Spain risen to 13. The outbreaks have led to a drop in Spain’s pig prices of €0.15/kg carcass weight.

BARCELONA/MADRID >> Spanish police, soldiers and park rangers are racing to identify wild boars that might be infected with African swine fever and prevent the disease from crossing into the country’s ...