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Slovakia to cull livestock after first swine fever case

The outbreak was discovered in a village near the Hungarian border.
 
"This is the very first case of ASF diagnosed in Slovakia," Jozef Bires, director-general of the State Veterinary and Food Administration, told AFP, adding that it occurred just 470 metres (yards) from the Hungarian border.
 
Hundreds of wild boar in Hungary have also been diagnosed with ASF this year.
 
All pigs within three kilometres (almost two miles) of the outbreak are to be culled, Slovakian authorities said, adding that they will establish a three-kilometre protection zone and a 10-kilometre surveillance zone.
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