Swine fever outbreak in Spain

Catalan forest rangers guard a forest path near of the village of Rubi, Barcelona, Catalonia, north-eastern Spain on December 12. Forest rangers announced that a fence was set up 6km around the area of a swine fever outbreak, in the town of Cerdanyola del Valles, to avoid wild boars leave the infected area. Photo by Alberto Estevez

Eight more wild boar with suspected cases of African swine fever have been discovered near Barcelona, La Vanguardia newspaper reports, as Spain struggles to limit the damage to a pork export industry worth billions of euros a year.

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