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PNA file photo. DAVAO CITY - The city government has issued a temporary ban on poultry and its by-products from Luzon and other areas with reported cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) or bird flu. A copy of Mayor Sara Z. Duterte's executive order on the ban dated May 13 was released to local media Thursday afternoon. "The city government of Davao is hereby issuing a temporary ban on the entry of domestic and captured wild birds, their products and by-products, including day-old chicks, eggs, semen, manure, and feathers, from Luzon and other areas with reported cases of Avian Influenza effective immediately," a portion of the order reads. Further, it said those who are transporting game fowls, ducks, pigeons, and captured wild birds must secure a veterinary health certificate indicating the birds were sourced from farms with no incidence of bird flu. The EO allows the transport or movement of game fowls from Davao City to other provinces, although the movem ....
Department of Agriculture - Soccsksargen Director Dennis R. Arpia. (File photo courtesy of DA-12 FB page) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Department of Agriculture - Soccsksargen (DA-12) Director Dennis R. Arpia on Tuesday ordered the stricter implementation of the "1-7-10 protocol" biosecurity and quarantine measure to contain and prevent the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in this city and the rest of the region. In a statement, Arpia called on all local government unit (LGU) officials and swine industry stakeholders to "continuously sustain efforts to manage, contain and control ASF, through the 1-7-10 protocol." This came after the city veterinary office (CVO) confirmed on January 24 an ASF case in Purok San Lorenzo, Barangay Apopong here. The ASF case has been managed and controlled, the CVO declared Monday. Under the 1-7-10 protocol, the local government units (LGUs) will cull all pigs within the 1-kilometer radius of the affected farm, while the movement of pork an ....
ASF ALERT. Workers from the General Santos City Veterinary Office load swine into trucks in Barangay Apopong and areas within the 500-meter radius for culling at the sanitary landfill of the city on Jan. 25, 2022. Between January 25 and 27, a total of 508 hogs have been culled from the ASF-affected area. (Photo by Richelyn Gubalani.) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The City Veterinary Office (CVO) confirmed on Thursday one positive case of African swine fever (ASF) in a village here. Dr. Antonio Ephraim Marin, the CVO chief, said the case came from Purok San Lorenzo, Barangay Apopong after several years of zero ASF cases in the city. On January 24, Marin said the Department of Agriculture (DA) satellite laboratory in Barangay Lagao called him up to confirm the case. "The finding was based on the laboratory test result in a blood sample taken from a backyard swine raiser in the village," he said. Veterinary authorities here are in a frantic move to prevent the spread of the ASF that cou ....