Thailand’s leading livestock official was summoned to an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday amid allegations of a swine fever cover-up.
The Department of Livestock Development (DLD) has detected one case of African swine fever (ASF) in a slaughterhouse in Nakhon Pathom from blood samples taken early this month but has urged the public not to panic as the disease is not transmissible to humans.