The announcement of the spread of ASF came a day after Garcia sued BAI officials at the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas for their alleged mishandling of the swine fever cases that negatively impacted on Cebu’s multibillion-peso hog industry. Cebu lost its status as an ASF-free province when the BAI detected the virus from samples of slaughtered meat in Carcar City in southern Cebu on March 1.
Cebu’s lechon and cured meat products are so well known that these became an industry in itself and can even be found at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport to be brought home by tourists visiting the island.
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