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| African Swine Fever Hits Region Near Barcelona; Lab Leak Suspect | |
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| By: Steve Date: December 13, 2025, 2:34 pm | |
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| SUMMARY - A laboratory leak of African Swine Fever is suspected | |
| in the death of 13 wild boars in a region near the city of | |
| Barcelona, Spain. African swine fever is a different disease to | |
| swine flu as the virus does not affect people and there is no | |
| impact on human health. Around 90 municipalities in Spain have | |
| been quarantined following the outbreak. More than 40 countries | |
| have reportedly imposed bans on Spanish pork imports. | |
| NOTE - International readers may be sensitive to having | |
| Barcelona be identified as part of the country of Spain. Please | |
| understand that the association is not a political statement; It | |
| is only identifying the current political situation as it | |
| currents stands. | |
| LINK - | |
| https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/13/scientists-may-leaked-african-swine-fever-13-cas… | |
| https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/13/scientists-may-leaked-african-swine-fever-13-cas… | |
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| Re: African Swine Fever Hits Region Near Barcelona; Lab Leak Sus | |
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| By: Masked Man Date: December 13, 2025, 4:42 pm | |
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| I speculate whether a laboratory leak of African Swine Fever is | |
| the same common strain of African Swine Fever found generated | |
| out in the public? Yikes, The fact that it is a laboratory leak | |
| generates more concern to me. Hopefully it wasn't a modified | |
| mutated form African Swine Fever it being from a laboratory... | |
| ...Something about viruses that escape from laboratory that just | |
| seem more dangerous to my layperson's mind. I would like to know | |
| what types of research that particular laboratory was actually | |
| doing with African Swine Fever.. you know; what types of | |
| experiments were being conducted in the lab with the virus right | |
| before it made its great escape and leaked? | |
| The article itself says "The research lab where the leak is | |
| believed to have started scheduled two experiments for different | |
| strains of the disease for late November". | |
| Yet more remarks found from another article... It appears to be | |
| a somewhat novel strain even though it is similar to another | |
| vicious strain that wreaked havoc in 2007.. apparently they | |
| (what's another word for idiots?) weren't able to test their | |
| groundbreaking first ever in history experimental vaccine on | |
| their experimental creation before it escaped ... | |
| SUMMARY: | |
| SCIENTISTS AT HIGH-SECURITY LAB IN NORTHERN SPAIN �EXPERIMENTED | |
| WITH AFRICAN SWINE FEVER� | |
| "They added the current ASF strain is strikingly similar to one | |
| that decimated the swine population in Georgia in 2007. | |
| Scientists at CReSA had been preparing to test a new vaccine | |
| involving modified versions of the Georgia strain on 35 boars in | |
| late November, the Commission�s report said." | |
| LINK: | |
| https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/12/12/scientists-at-high-security-… | |
| "To this day, there are no commercial vaccines or treatments | |
| available for the ASF virus, even though the virus was detected | |
| almost a century ago.. | |
| also another little tidbit of info is ASF virus can also be | |
| transmitted via soft ticks that belong to the genus | |
| Ornithodoros. In the guts of Ornithodoros ticks, the virus does | |
| not cause any disease and can persist for long periods of | |
| time".. | |
| Read more about African Swine Fever here.. | |
| SUMMARY: | |
| African Swine Fever Virus: A Global Concern | |
| Kanika Khanna, Ph.D. | |
| Published: April 1, 2022 | |
| LINK: | |
| https://asm.org/articles/2022/march/african-swine-fever-virus-is-a-global-conce… | |
| To play devil's advocate, and keeping an open mind here's one | |
| Virologist that warns swine fever could mutate to threaten | |
| humans. | |
| SUMMARY: | |
| The infectuous disease expert spoke out strongly against the | |
| public�s sometimes reckless disregard for the monitoring and | |
| quarantine measures put into place by state veterinary health | |
| authorities in the state-of-emergency territories declared by | |
| the government so far. | |
| �ASF is not dangerous now, but it only takes a coincidental | |
| combination of conditions for it to become so, and then it�s | |
| just a matter of it starting to proliferate,� Kalniņa said. | |
| There are plenty of precedents for a virus to adapt to a new | |
| carrier, such as forms of bird flu, however Kalniņa | |
| explained that the genome for the ASF virus is more stable, | |
| meaning that while mutations could be less likely to develop, | |
| they could certainly not be ruled out" | |
| LINK: | |
| https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/virologist-warns-swine-fever-could-m… | |
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