NEW DELHI: Pygmy hogs — the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig — are under a virus lockdown.
Not because of the coronavirus, but because of the first outbreak of African swine fever in India. There is neither a vaccine nor cure for the highly contagious viral disease that has already killed over 16,000 domestic pigs, said Pradip Gogoi, an official at Assam state’s animal husbandry wing.
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