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African swine fever

December 2025

  • Behind a sign reading 'infected zone', officials speak to a driver on a road closed due to an outbreak of African swine fever near Barcelona

    African swine fever outbreak in Spain may have leaked from research lab, officials say

  • A police car on a road leading into forest.

    Nine boars found dead in Spanish swine fever outbreak

November 2025

  • Portrait of an Amur tiger with snow on its head

    The age of extinction
    ‘The tigers are hungry’: endangered but deadly, the world’s largest big cat is sowing fear in Siberia’s villages

    The spread of African swine flu among the wild boars the animals eat has led to the deadliest winter for attacks on people in the Russian region for decades – and a spike in tiger killings

January 2024

  • A bearded pig on Borneo.

    The age of extinction
    ‘The pigs have disappeared’: swine fever threatens food source for millions as disease hits wild herds

    Scientists call for urgent intervention, as bearded pig populations are devastated by the deadly virus on islands such as Borneo

September 2023

  • Pig culling at a farm in Lombardy, northern Italy, last week.

    Animals farmed
    Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever

    Outbreaks in the Lombardy ‘pork belt’ were extinguished, say experts, but wild boar could act as a reservoir

October 2022

  • Pigs in a cage.

    Animals farmed
    Scientists rush to create vaccine for world’s biggest animal disease outbreak

    Tackling African swine fever – which has led to death of more than 100m pigs since 2018 – has proved a tougher challenge than scientists first thought

April 2022

  • Pigs in a transport truck

    Swine fever risk if UK waives checks on imports from EU, say vets

    Ministers are considering another postponement to border controls amid fears of supply chain problems and higher prices

November 2021

  • Anti-meat protest

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: meat taxes, death in farming and anti-climate lobbying

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

October 2021

  • A pig looks out from its enclosure

    Animals farmed
    The US has a silent pig pandemic on its doorstep once again

    As America readies to protect its pork industry, the Dominican Republic has been accused of using an outbreak of African Swine Fever to wipe out smaller producers

September 2021

  • Nordic Aquafarm's land-based aquaculture facility in Frederikstad, Norway

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: BSE in Brazil, UK pork crisis and radical Dutch plan to cut livestock numbers

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

May 2021

  • Floating Farm, Rotterdam, Netherlands - 27 Apr 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock (11891676a) A cow is rescued after falling into water at the Floating Farm in Rotterdam Floating Farm, Rotterdam, Netherlands A cow is rescued after falling into the water at a floating farm in Rotterdam, Netherlands last month

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: Foie gras backlash, the ‘toughest job in farming’ and salmonella outbreaks

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

April 2021

  • Dairy cows frolic as they enter the meadow in Baarn, Netherlands, 19 March 2021.

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: heat stress, happy cows and foie gras bans

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

March 2021

  • Mink

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: ‘Net zero’ beef, China’s mink bonus and fake swine fever jabs

  • Pigs

    Animals farmed
    Deadly pig disease could have led to Covid spillover to humans, analysis suggests

February 2021

  • Mealworms are sorted before being cooked in San Francisco

    Animals farmed update
    Animals farmed: insects for lunch, £2bn for mink farmers and the future of male chicks

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

January 2021

  • People build a metal fence to try to keep out African Swine Fever, on the border between eastern Germany and western Poland

    Animals farmed
    Could a deadly pig virus transform Germany’s fixation on 'cheap meat'?

    African swine fever and Covid outbreaks among workers have raised questions over mega farms for pork

October 2020

  • Hog farm in Kenyon, Minnesota

    Animals farmed
    How does one of the world’s biggest pork firms go bust during a boom?

    A giant US player is quitting despite huge export hikes during the pandemic – the reasons why get to the heart of the industry

September 2020

  • Yangxiang’s high-rise pig buildings

    Animals farmed
    A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease?

  • Agriculture minister Julia Klöckner breaks the new

    Animals farmed
    German farmers face possible pig culls as African swine fever discovered

June 2020

  • Pigs

    Animals farmed
    'Worst outbreak ever': Nearly a million pigs culled in Nigeria due to swine fever

    Farmers report devastating losses as poor control measures are blamed for spread of infection across the country
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