{
  "series": "asf-active",
  "title": "ASF active barangays",
  "unit": "active barangays",
  "keyField": "date",
  "geographies": [
    "PH"
  ],
  "coverage": {
    "rows": 3,
    "published": 3,
    "nulls": 0,
    "retracted": 11,
    "first": "2025-12-31",
    "last": "2026-05-08",
    "latestValued": "2026-05-08"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "citation": "Baboy PH state-of-the-industry archive, series \"asf-active\". CC BY 4.0. https://baboyph.com/data/asf-active",
  "source": "https://baboyph.com/data/asf-active",
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2025-11-25",
      "shortDate": "Nov 25",
      "value": 64,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Dead source URL, uniform accessed_on, no corroborating BAI report. Unverifiable."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-12-01",
      "shortDate": "Dec 1",
      "value": 82,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Dead source URL, uniform accessed_on, no corroborating BAI report. Unverifiable."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-12-15",
      "shortDate": "Dec 15",
      "value": 95,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Dead source URL, uniform accessed_on, no corroborating BAI report. Unverifiable."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-12-31",
      "shortDate": "Dec 31",
      "value": 98,
      "label": "Peak",
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "note": "Cycle peak that preceded the AVAC vaccine ramp",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Value is correct but the citation is dead. Superseded by the properly sourced row below, which carries the same figure."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-12-31",
      "shortDate": "Dec 31",
      "value": 98,
      "label": "Peak",
      "provinces": 11,
      "source_id": "pig333",
      "source_url": "https://www.3tres3.com/en/latest_swine_news/asf-philippines-fewer-areas-affected_22216/",
      "accessed_on": "2026-07-12",
      "note": "98 active barangays across 11 provinces. Cycle peak, preceding the AVAC vaccine ramp in the six pilot provinces of Luzon."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-01-07",
      "shortDate": "Jan 7",
      "value": 52,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Invented. Dead URL, and the following row claimed a fall to 8 within eight days — an 85% collapse that no outbreak curve produces and no BAI report describes."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-01-15",
      "shortDate": "Jan 15",
      "value": 8,
      "label": "92% drop",
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Invented, and the origin of the '92% drop' headline the dashboard ran for two months. BAI reported 27 active barangays on 6 Feb 2026 — three weeks AFTER this row claims 8. The real decline to 8 barangays did not happen until early May 2026, and the sourced figure for it is an 88% year-on-year fall, not 92%."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-02-01",
      "shortDate": "Feb 1",
      "value": 11,
      "label": "Southern Leyte fresh",
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Contradicted by BAI, which reported 27 active barangays across 13 provinces five days later. The 'Southern Leyte fresh' label is unsourced; no Southern Leyte outbreak was found in any February 2026 report."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-02-06",
      "shortDate": "Feb 6",
      "value": 27,
      "provinces": 13,
      "source_id": "pig333",
      "source_url": "https://www.3tres3.com/en/latest_swine_news/asf-philippines-fewer-areas-affected_22216/",
      "accessed_on": "2026-07-12",
      "note": "27 active barangays across 13 provinces. The real February reading — 2.5x the figure the retracted series carried for the same week."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-03-01",
      "shortDate": "Mar 1",
      "value": 7,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Invented. Dead URL; contradicted by the 27-barangay BAI reading three weeks earlier."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-04-01",
      "shortDate": "Apr 1",
      "value": 5,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Invented. Dead URL, no corroborating BAI report for any April 2026 count."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-05-01",
      "shortDate": "May 1",
      "value": 9,
      "label": "Watch zone",
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Invented. Dead URL, no corroborating BAI report for a 1 May count."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-05-08",
      "shortDate": "May 8",
      "value": 8,
      "provinces": 7,
      "label": "88% y/y",
      "source_id": "pig333",
      "source_url": "https://www.3tres3.com/en/latest_swine_news/ilocos-norte-recovers-from-asf_22549/",
      "accessed_on": "2026-07-12",
      "note": "8 active barangays across 7 cities and municipalities in 7 provinces — an 88% fall year-on-year. The last national count BAI has published. It predates the Visayas resurgence that began in late June 2026 and must never be presented as the current figure."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-05-20",
      "shortDate": "May 20",
      "value": 8,
      "source_id": "bai",
      "source_url": "https://www.bai.gov.ph/asf",
      "accessed_on": "2026-05-20",
      "note": "Current dashboard reading",
      "retracted": true,
      "retracted_on": "2026-07-12",
      "retraction_reason": "Dead URL. BAI published no count on 20 May; the figure was the 8 May reading re-dated to make the dashboard look current. Retained here only as evidence of that practice."
    }
  ]
}