A number of regular visitors to the farm have called us worrying about the risks of Swine flu. Our poor woolly pigs - Winston and Clementine (due to farrow any day now!) have been most offended! Swine flu contagion is not in fact now in anyway related to pigs.
Speaking to the Newspaper Society at the Palace of Westminster, Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn said: “The UK and some other members of the European Union undertake routine surveillance to help detect the presence of animal diseases not normally present in the EU and to identify any change in the prevalence of diseases that do occur. Results of our surveillance suggest that this variant of H1N1 does not appear to be present in pigs in the UK or anywhere else in the EU. However we are taking this developing situation very seriously and will maintain our surveillance effort, keeping the public and industry informed of any developments."
For more information on the disease currently hitting the headline you can visit the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website www.defra.gov.uk
Do come along and visit the new piglets arriving soon!
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