Spread Swine Disease Unknowingly

... wondering how a particular swine disease gets to your farm?

This is how 👇

If this animal was sick & now possibly it was slaughtered at the source farm(Farm A). The farm owner may have sanitized the materials used in handling this animal so as to prevent the spread of the disease to other pigs in the farm.

Now the buyer, moving this animal from the farm, didn't have any form of covering to prevent the dripping of blood & other fluids on the way to her restaurant, exposes many road users some of which maybe farmers or farm attendants or visitors heading to different farms to contact whatsoever disease that killed the animal & introduce same to their destination farms(Farm B).

Disease prevention via strict #biosecurity is the only way to avoid the spread of disease from Farm A to Farm B.

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