US EditionCatalonia Investigates Potential Swine Fever Lab Leak
Authorities probe a state-funded research center after genome sequencing linked the outbreak strain to the Georgia 2007 vaccine strain; 13 wild boars tested positive.
- On Dec 5, Catalonia's regional government announced an investigation into a suspected lab leak at the state-funded Centre for Research in Animal Health near Barcelona.
- Genome sequencing found the strain closely matches the Georgia 2007 strain used in research, and Spain's Agriculture Ministry said this does not rule out a biological containment origin.
- Initially, officials suspected wild boars spread the virus after eating contaminated food, possibly a sandwich brought by a truck driver, while Cresa, designated by the World Organization for Animal Health in 2017, told Maldita.es it found no evidence of being the source.
- The outbreak threatens pigs and wild boars, and Spain, the EU's top pork producer, seeks to reassure trading partners after 13 wild boars tested positive.
- Other European cases are from a different genetic group, and the Georgia 2007 strain previously spread to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus and eastern EU states in 2014.
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Multiple research on the Generalitat Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA-CreSa), the center on which all eyes converge after the Ministry of Agriculture reported that the origin of the outbreak of African swine fever (PPA) detected in Barcelona on November 28 could have left a laboratory.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has commissioned an audit of the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) to find out if the outbreak of swine fever...
The Generalitat has commissioned an audit of the Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentarias (IRTA, in Catalan) to analyze whether it has been possible to escape the African swine fever virus from one of its facilities. Specifically, the report will focus on the laboratory itself of the Center for Animal Health Research (CReSA) and another center of the Autonomous University of Barcelona that are at the epicenter of the outbreak. A …
The President of the Generalitat sends a message of tranquility and assures that the virus is being contained in the affected Collserola area The Government is now investigating whether the origin of the outbreak of swine fever is in a laboratory The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has announced an audit and a “protocol review” at the IRTA-CReSA, the reference animal health research center in Catalonia that has been working for year…
Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak
MADRID/BARCELONA - The Catalonia regional government said on Friday it would investigate a research center outside Barcelona after Spain's Agriculture Ministry said a recent swine fever outbreak could have been caused by a laboratory leak.
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