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The carcass of a wild boar infected with African swine fever was found in Marutha, prompting surveillance zones in six nearby panchayats.

District officials said no culling is needed as no pig farms lie within a kilometre of the epicentre.

Transport and sale of pigs and pork have been banned in the area as a precaution to contain the outbreak.

The district administration said on Friday that several panchayats in this north Kerala district were designated as surveillance zones following the discovery of African swine fever, a highly contagious and fatal disease in pigs, in the decaying carcass of a wild boar.

The sickness won't infect people, it said, and the carcass was discovered at a location known as Marutha.

Within ten km of the epicentre, the gramme panch

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