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Over 600 pigs die of swine fever in Mizoram [1]

Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here on Wednesday.

“The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. Over 12,200 pigs have been infected with the disease,” a Mizoram animal husbandry and veterinary department official told reporters. The northeastern state shares border with Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Publication Date: 
02/05/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati) [2]
Tags:
Mizoram [3], Aizawl (D) [4], Swine Flu [5], Animal Diseases [6], Pigs [7], Respiratory Diseases [8], Animal Care [9]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/swine-flu
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/respiratory-diseases
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/animal-care