Alland San Juan, a hog farmer in Bulacan province, north of Manila, knew disaster was about to strike in August when his neighbours’ pigs began dying en masse, forcing them to dispose of the bodies in local catfish ponds.
African Swine Fever had not yet been reported in the Philippines. But by early September, all 250 of the San Juans’ hogs had also died of the disease, and — with the ponds now full — the family hired a backhoe to dig a pit and bury them on their farm.
“We cried buckets of tears,” said his wife, Geraldine San Juan, a part-time law student and mother of six. “All our dreams went up in smoke.”
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