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Detailed explanation-1: -African swine fever reported in Kannur and Wayanad districts of Kerala.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thrissur African Swine Flu was confirmed in a pig farm at Cherpu grama panchayat in Thrissur district on Tuesday.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -India does not have a history of ASF, though the disease was first described almost a century ago. India reported its first outbreak to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in May 2020, with cases reported from Arunachal Pradesh and then Assam.