Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 9/22/21

The World Organization for Animal Health says it has confirmed finding African swine fever in Haiti. Haiti borders the Dominican Republic, which confirmed the virus was in-country this summer. The farm in Haiti with confirmed African swine fever is near the border. Haiti is conducting surveillance for the disease in pigs and imposed a quarantine to control the outbreak, according to Reuters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture found the disease last week through testing at the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory on Plum Island, New York.

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