Bacolod records 1st ASF case

By Eugene Y. Adiong

May 28, 2023 12:10 am

BACOLOD CITY: Bacolod City, the capital city of Negros Occidental, can no longer claim to be free of African swine fever (ASF).

On Friday, blood samples from two pigs in a backyard piggery in Barangay Taculing tested positive for ASF. This is the first case of ASF in the city and the province since the outbreak was first reported in the Visayas in 2019.

BIOSECURITY MEETING Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson (left) and Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (second from left) spearhead a joint animal biosecurity meeting with the province’s Incident Management Team at the Command Center in Bacolod City on Friday afternoon, May 26, 2023. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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