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Sikkim
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Assam
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kerala Minister for Animal Husbandry J Chinchu Rani had on Friday confirmed the infection in the state and directed the pig farms to strictly implement the biosecurity and waste disposal mechanism as part of the swine fever action plan.
Detailed explanation-2: -ASF was first described in 1921 in Kenya. In the decades that followed, it spread in several sub-Saharan African countries but remained on the African Continent until 1957. African swine fever reached Europe in 1957 when it was detected in a Portugal pig farm.
Detailed explanation-3: -ASF is a highly contagious and viral haemorrhagic disease that is known to infect pigs and wild boar, with a near 100 per cent fatality rate.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mizoram government had also killed more than 37, 000 pigs after the state also detected the African swine fever virus. African swine fever is a highly contagious and fatal viral disease affecting domestic pigs.