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Swine fever prompts sausage alert

Stash found aboard flight from China

Air passengers were on Monday warned against bringing a particular type of illegal Chinese-branded sausage into the country due to its tendency to spread the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus.

The alert over the safety of the meat, popular among Chinese-style hotpot restaurants, came in a Facebook post by the Department of Livestock Development’s (DLD) Quarantine and Inspection Canine Unit of Suvarnabhumi airport.

According to the post, one of their detection dogs had led them to seize 100 illegal sausages in the luggage hold of a Hainan Airlines flight that had departed from Meilan International Airport in Haikou…

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