An eight-year-old child has died while six other people have been admitted to Embangweni mission hospital in Mzimba for eating suspected poisoned pork meat. Hospital director Kondwani Zgambo said the other five have since been discharged, saying only one remains in hospital. He said all the patients were from one family. Zgambo said efforts to […]
Rumphi District Animal Health and Livestock Development Office has imposed a ban on slaughtering and movement of pigs and pig products following an African- Swine-Fever outbreak in the district. The district’s animal health and livestock development officer Harvey Kumwenda said the disease has no vaccine and cure; hence, the ban. “We learnt about the outbreak […]
District Agriculture Development Office (DADO) in Mchinji has to extend a ban on slaughtering of pigs from March 22 to June 22, 2019. The Office issued the ban in January, 2019, forbidding slaughtering of pigs in Msitu Extension Planning Area (EPA), in the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Mabvwere after the disease manifested in the […]
Six months after the Mzuzu Agricultural Development Division (ADD) issued a warning on African swine fever and asked pork consumers to desist from selling or consuming uncertified pig meat, some vendors in the city continue selling uninspected meat. The situation has been compounded by the closing down of the only certified pig market and slaughter […]