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Spanish ASF laboratory link ruled out

The variant detected in wild boars does not match the strain used by researchers at the lab

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
clock • 1 min read
Spanish ASF laboratory link ruled out

The strain of African swine fever found in wild boar in Spain's Catalonia region does not match strains being worked on in a nearby laboratory, provisional investigations show. A further 18 wild...

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