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 The outbreak is the second at an industrial farm in a Balkan country
this year, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said in a statement.
All the pigs at the farm will be culled, the agency said, and a
three-kilometre quarantine zone set up around it to stop the spread
of the disease, which is incurable in pigs but harmless to humans.
In August, the agency had to cull some 13,000 pigs at an industrial
farm in the central village of Apriltsi after an African swine fever
outbreak. The agency has reported five outbreaks of the disease in
backyard farms in 2021.
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 (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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