Authorities on Friday confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in a village in this central Kerala district. According to officials, the infection was detected in pigs in the sixth ward of Mulankunnathukavu panchayat, after tests carried out at a Government lab in Bhopal. A rapid response team has been deployed to contain the spread, they said. The team under the leadership of the Animal Husbandry Department has begun operations to prevent the spread of the disease, an officialsaid. Officials have declared a one-km zone around the affected farm as infected, and a 10-km belt around it as a surveillance zone.