There is now likely to be a whole day of the Platinum Jubilee weekend without Her Majesty appearing, as she is expected to follow the evening concert at Buckingham Palace on television from Windsor. The decision is understood to have been taken amid concerns about the Queen’s mobility. Royal sources on Sunday told The Telegraph that the Queen, 96, is not planning to attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday, with the Princess Royal instead travelling in her place. Lilibet has not yet met her royal relatives, including her great-grandmother, but will travel from California to the UK for the first time with her parents and older brother Archie, now three.
The Duke and Duchess’s second child was born in the US and turns one on Saturday, when celebrations of the monarch’s 70-year reign will be in full swing across the country. Lilibet, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is expected to spend her first birthday meeting her namesake, the Queen, on the Platinum Jubilee weekend. Researchers say their population has grown in recent decades because of the animals' high reproductive rate and a lack of predators, coupled with climate change, reforestation efforts and decreased hunting. “I respect the sensitivities of all animal and environmental activists but we are facing an emergency and it must be addressed with emergency tools,” Andrea Costa, Italy’s undersecretary for health, tells Rai, per Google Translate.ĭomesticated pigs descended from their wild cousins, which are native to Europe and Asia. Infected animals have high fevers, red or blotchy skin, diarrhea and vomiting, coughing, difficulty breathing and weakness, per the U.S. In China, the world’s largest pork-producing nation, farmers killed hundreds of millions of pigs due to the viral disease in 20. Outbreaks can be devastating for livestock producers, who either lose their animals to the disease itself or must slaughter their herds to stop the spread. It has so far not been detected in the United States. The highly contagious virus first appeared in East Africa in the early 1900s, then spread to Europe and Asia. And while African swine fever can’t be transmitted to humans, it can infect and kill commercial pigs raised for food. Roughly 2.3 million wild boars roam around Italy, with roughly 20,000 in the area of Rome, according to farm trade group Coldiretti. Though animals tested positive for the disease in the country’s northwestern Piedmont and Liguria regions earlier this year, this is the first time officials have detected African swine fever in animals near the Italian capital, reports the Guardian’s Angela Giuffrida. In parts of northern Rome, the city is banning outdoor picnics, and some neighborhoods are even implementing curfews to deter pig-human contact.
But that doesn’t mean they’re safe from Italy’s boars in recent months, residents have reported multiple cases of porcine aggression toward people. The Italian government plans to cull the population after at least one wild boar tested positive for African swine fever in the Insugherata Nature Reserve this week another two animals found in the same area are likely positive as well, reports state-owned news broadcaster Rai. Some of the animals now have a contagious disease, and others have injured the humans that live in their ever-expanding habitat. And while residents have mostly resigned themselves to coexisting with the animals, the situation appears to be getting worse. In and around Rome, it’s not uncommon to see hairy wild boars rummaging through garbage bins or wandering down the street.