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Nine days ago Inner Mongolia became the 7th Chinese Province/Territory to report an ASF outbreak (see China: MOA Reports 2 New ASF Outbreaks (Inner Mongolia, Henan Province), which was quickly followed by a 2nd notification last Monday, and a 3rd on Friday.
On Friday, an 8th Province/Territory (Jilin) reported an outbreak as well.Today we have a 4th outbreak from Inner Mongolia, detected this time - not on a farm - but in pigs already sent to a slaughterhouse in Hohhot. While an investigative team has been dispatched, we aren't told exactly where the infected pigs were sourced from.
A case of African swine fever in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Date: 2018-09-24 15:56 Author: Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Press Office
The Information Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was released on September 24, and the Hoghot City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was diagnosed with an African pig swine epidemic.
On September 22, the official veterinarian of a slaughterhouse in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, found that the pigs to be slaughtered died during the inspection. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center was diagnosed as suspected African swine fever.
On the 24th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs received a report from the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and was diagnosed as an African swine fever epidemic by the China Center for Animal Health and Epidemiology (National Center for Animal Disease Research). The slaughterhouse is 388 pigs to be slaughtered, with 4 heads and 2 deaths.
Immediately after the outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent a steering group to the local area. The local government has started the emergency response mechanism as required, and adopted measures such as blockade, culling, harmless treatment, disinfection, etc., to treat all the sick and culled pigs harmlessly. At the same time, all pigs and their products are prohibited from flowing out of the blockade area, and pigs are prohibited from being transported into the blockade area. At present, the above epidemic has been effectively disposed of.
Meanwhile Shandong Province - which is bordered by a couple of provinces reporting ASF, but has yet to find a case - has ordered their hog market closed in an attempt to prevent the entry and spread of the virus.
Shandong's prevention and control of African piglets temporarily shut down the province's live pig market
September 23, 2018 04:18 Beijing News
The Beijing Newsletter (Reporter Li Yukun intern Liang Hanbin) Recently, the Shandong Provincial Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau issued the "Notice on Printing and Disclosing an Open Letter to Prevent and Control African Hog", temporarily closing the province's live pig trading market.
The notice publicized the "open letter to the majority of pig farms (households)" organized by the Provincial Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau, the "Open Letter to the Slaughter Enterprises of All Pigs in the Province" and the "Open Letter to All the Pig Trafficking Brokers in the Province".
Among them, in the "Open Letter to the majority of pig farms (households)", Shandong Provincial Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau clearly pointed out that "the province temporarily closed the live pig trading market, suspended the transfer of pigs outside the province (excluding breeding pigs), suspended from outside the province Transfer to pigs."
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While not a health risk to humans, ASF is truly a nightmare disease for pig producers - and with no vaccine available - the only way to control it is to cull all of the pigs that may have been exposed.
The FAO, which a little over two weeks ago announced that ASF in China was `Here to stay', has warned of the spread of ASF beyond China, into neighboring countries in Asia (see African swine fever (ASF) threatens to spread from China to other Asian countries).
Similar concerns extend beyond Asia as China exports feed products for swine, which some believe may have introduced PED (see mBio: PEDV - Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus – An Emerging Coronavirus) into the United States in 2013.A dispatch last week from the Swine Health Information Center warned:
ASF in China Prompts Call for Pork Producers to Think Feed Safety
September 19, 2018
Five Possible Pathways ASF Could Enter Canada
September 24, 2018
