Mexican authorities breathed a sigh of relief Friday when experts determined that a die-off of pigs in December at a local slaughterhouse was due to salmonella and Pasteurellosis, a commonly occurring infection, and not African swine fever.
Mexico's agriculture department said 220 pigs at a slaughterhouse in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit were culled as a precaution.
It said experts also detected Mycoplasmal Pneumonia, a common lung disease in pigs.
The pigs started dying around Christmas, and were buried in a pit to avoid them further contaminating the food chain.
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