The owner had two other miniature pigs in the same household that also died later. - PHOTO: UNSPLASH via The Straits Times/ANN
BANGKOK, Jan 8 (Reuters): Thailand's livestock authorities vowed to investigate the death of a pet pig after a university lab test indicated it died from African swine fever, the first such report in the country.
Thailand has for years insisted its pig herds remained unaffected by African swine fever, which over recent years has swept through Europe and Asia and killed hundreds of millions of pigs, particularly in China, even as its Southeast Asian neighbours reported outbreaks.
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