State plantation, agriculture and food industry committee chairman Razman Zakaria said the pigs were culled according to strict disposal standards to tighten the farm’s biosecurity.

“The outbreak is under control and the infection is confirmed to only be in the Kerian district,” he said in a statement.

He said there was no need for the public to panic as the disease was not contagious to humans, adding that the Perak veterinary services department had taken several measures to control the spread of the disease.

This includes sealing the infected farm and prohibiting it from transporting or moving any pigs or vehicles from the farm, he added.

It was earlier reported that the veterinary services department had detected African swine fever at two commercial pig farms in Kerian through a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test by the Veterinary Research Institute (VRI) in Ipoh last weekend.