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African Swine Fever (ASF)

- It is a highly contagious and fatal animal disease. It infects domestic and wild pigs, resulting in hemorrhagic fever.

 - first detected in Africa in the 1920s.

- mortality is close to 100%(reason - No Cure)

- spreading can only be stopped by culling the animals.

- not a threat to humans as it only spreads from animals to other animals.

News - 2,800 pigs have died in Assam since February due to the virus

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LaCONES
(Laboratory for the Conservation Of Endangered Species)

- @Hyderabad - under CSIR's Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)

- It is India's only facility for conservation of endangered species using modern biotechnology

News - Recently, LaCONES has helped 
Amrabad Tiger Reserve (Telangana), to restore the population of Mouse Deer.