Those attending this year’s Big Butler Fair will not see any pigs at the event due to a mandate from the state.
It’s because of the worldwide disease known as African Swine Fever.
“They’re telling us it’s the largest animal disease outbreak in history,” secretary of the Butler Fair Board Harold Dunn said in an interview with Butler Radio.
Because of that, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture decided their wouldn’t be a pig show at any events this yera.
Farmers in China and Vietnam have lost nearly four million animals but officials say no cases of the disease have been documented in the United States.
Dunn says the state ban is just a precaution.
“There is no known cure. There is no vaccination regime that can be used for this disease. If the pigs get it, they die,” Dunn said.
This is not a disease that affects humans in any way but it can be transmitted on clothing and shoes between animals.
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