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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 -
HTML https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/13/scientists-may-leaked-african-swine-fever-13-cases-confirmed-25442704/
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Re: African Swine Fever Hits Region Near Barcelona; Lab Leak Sus
pected
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:
HTML https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/12/12/scientists-at-high-security-lab-in-northern-spain-experimented-with-african-swine-fever-when-first-cases-appeared-just-metres-away/
"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:
HTML https://asm.org/articles/2022/march/african-swine-fever-virus-is-a-global-concern
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:
HTML https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/virologist-warns-swine-fever-could-mutate-to-threaten-humans.a94795/
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