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African Swine Fever continues to spread in China, and for the fifth time in 10 days, a new administrative district (today it's Shanghai) has reported their first outbreak. Yesterday it was Sichuan Province, 9 days ago it was Jiangxi & Fujian Provinces, and 10 days ago it was Hubei province.
It total, 19 of China's 34 administrative districts have reported ASF outbreaks since August 1st.While African Swine Fever poses no direct threat to human health it is a devastating disease for pigs, and with no vaccine, the only recourse is to destroy all infected and potentially exposed pigs.
China, as the both the world's largest producer and consumer of pork, faces huge economic and societal challenges if ASF cannot be contained, and has recently announced hard-line measures in an attempt to do so.
Last weekend the big ASF headline was the ASF Virus Was Detected In Commercial Animal Feed, but subsequent testing has reportedly cast some doubts on those initial reports.
Potentially good news, but that still leaves big questions over how the virus has been spread so rapidly, and so widely, across the eastern half of China.Two (translated) reports from the MOA this morning:
Shanghai Jinshan District to detect African swine fever
Date: 2018-11-17 18:06 Author: Source: Department of Agriculture Office of Rural room
The Information Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was released on November 17, and the Jinshan District of Shanghai Province detected the African swine fever epidemic.
At 16:00 on November 17, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs received a report from the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and was diagnosed by the China Center for Animal Health and Epidemiology (National Center for Animal Disease Research). Pig plague.
Up to now, the farmer has 314 pigs, 50 diseases and 11 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 being transferred out of the blockade, and pigs are prohibited from being transported into the blockade. At present, the above measures have been implemented.
Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, Kunming Chenggong District, Xinjin County, Sichuan Province with each investigation and the outbreak of African swine fever
Date: 2018-11-17 15:30 Author: Source: Agriculture and Rural Department of Public Information Office
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Information Office November 17 release, Jiangxi Province, Poyang County in Shangrao City, Yunnan Province, Kunming Chenggong District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province Xinjin County investigation and the African swine fever epidemic.
At 12:17 on November days, the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas to the control center reported Chinese animal epidemic prevention, the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center (National Center for Exotic Animal Disease Research) confirmed, Poyang County, a farm, a slaughter Chenggong District field, Xinjin County farm investigation and the African swine fever epidemic.
Among them, Poyang County farms 150 pig herds, the incidence of 10, died 10; Chenggong District slaughtered pig slaughterhouses a total of 348; Xinjin County 110 farm pig herds, the incidence of 27, died 13.
After the outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural immediately sent a steering group to the local. Started as required by local emergency response mechanism, to take the blockade, culling measures to deal with harmless treatment, disinfection, culling of all pigs died and sound processing. At the same time, prohibiting all pigs and their products to bring up the blockade zone, prohibiting the transport of live pigs blockade zone. At present, these measures have been implemented.
