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Spain mobilizes army after pig eats sandwich

2025-12-01 20:08:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Spain mobilizes army after pig eats sandwich
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The Spanish army was mobilized Monday to contain an outbreak of African swine fever near Barcelona. Officials say the case may have been caused by a wild boar eating contaminated food, such as a sandwich, setting off a chain of events that is now disrupting a multibillion-euro pork export industry.

Spain confirmed on Friday that two wild boars found dead in Collserola park, 21km from Barcelona, ​​had tested positive for the disease, prompting the creation of a 6km quarantine zone around the affected area in Bellaterra.

Authorities are now analyzing other suspected cases in the area and are expecting more cases to emerge.

"The most likely hypothesis... is that cold meat, a sandwich, contaminated food, could have ended up in a trash can. We have to take into account that Bellaterra is an area with a lot of traffic from all over Europe and then a wild boar could have eaten it and become infected," Catalan Agriculture Minister Oscar Ordeig told Catalunya Radio today.

African swine fever, harmless to humans, is spreading rapidly among pigs and wild boars, posing a significant economic risk to Spain, one of the world's largest pork exporters.

The contaminated area is located near the AP-7 motorway, a major transport route linking Spain and France. Ordeing said the lack of infected wild boar elsewhere in Catalonia and France meant that the transport of contaminated food from humans could have brought the virus.

Efforts to control the disease intensified on Sunday, with 300 Catalan police and agricultural guards deployed on the ground, followed by 117 members of the military emergency unit (UME).

Spain's Agriculture Minister Luis Planas said on Saturday that about a third of the country's pork export certificates had been seized as a result of the outbreak, although no farms had been affected so far. Pig farms within a 20-kilometer radius of the initial outbreak are facing restrictions on their operations and sales.


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