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Two weeks ago today Taiwan's BAPHIQ reported ASF Positive Pork Products Brought In By Passengers From Vietnam, providing the first hint that the deadly pig disease that hit China last August had extended its reach to Vietnam.
Four days later, Vietnam Reported Their First (3) Outbreaks Of African Swine Fever, across two provinces (Thái Bình and Hưng Yên). Six days later (Feb 25th), Vietnam reported outbreaks in two more provinces (Hai Phong and Thanh Hoa).Today Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture (MARD) has announced that over the past 14 days African Swine Fever has been detected in 96 households (or farms), across 33 villages, 20 communes, 13 districts of 6 provinces and cities.
This rapid escalation of numbers suggests ASF has been spreading, but unreported, in Vietnam for some time. The Deputy Prime Minister, in the following press release, puts much of the blame on the failure of `stagnant' and `inefficient' organization of local animal health bureaucracies.
While the number of outbreaks reported in Vietnam over the past two weeks nearly equals the number China reported in the first 5 months of their outbreak, the average size of Vietnam's outbreaks - which thus far are appearing in family-run operations, not large farms - is vastly lower.Most of Vietnam's 30 million pigs are still raised in communes, by individual households. rather than on an industrial scale (cite). But in recent years larger pig farms have begun to appear in Vietnam, and the risk that ASF will begin to strike these larger operations is very real.
This press release from MARD:
Deputy Prime Minister directed the prevention and control of cholera pig in Africa
On the morning of February 28, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired an emergency meeting to prevent and limit African swine flu (ASF) to spread to many localities.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung gave a speech to direct the conference
According to a report by MARD, as of February 28, African swine flu (ASF) occurred in 96 households, 33 villages, 20 communes, 13 districts of 6 provinces and cities including: Hung Yen and Thai Binh. , Hai Phong, Thanh Hoa, Hanoi and Ha Nam. ASF has appeared in all wild pigs (in Van Xa commune, Kim Bang district, Na Nam). The total number of infected and culled pigs was nearly 2,350 (with a total weight of over 172.5 tons) and caused tens of billions of losses.
According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, one of the reasons for spreading the epidemic is the merger of the district-level veterinary agency into an agricultural technical service center, but the organization of implementing the prevention and combat tasks Animal diseases are stagnant, inefficient, there are many shortcomings and shortcomings.
In particular, establishments do not actively monitor and timely cap information and report on epidemic situation, do not organize hygiene and disinfection, do not implement vaccination, does not handle violations ...
Meanwhile, policies to support destruction are at VND 27,000 - 38,000 / kg, but administrative procedures are very complicated, making farmers slow to receive money, leading to people selling out sick pigs, pigs suspected to be sick. .
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that cholera of African pigs does not spread to humans but is very dangerous because it spreads very quickly, and there is no vaccine to prevent disease. If not fiercely prevented, it will greatly affect the livestock industry. Most important today is to synchronously apply integrated solutions, with the motto "room is main".
Addressing at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung stated that the current development is complicated and tends to spread to many localities.
Deputy Prime Minister asked ministries and localities to implement drastically measures to prevent epidemics. Good information work for people to understand the level of danger of African cholera epidemic so that people can join in to control the epidemic successfully. Focus on implementing measures to prevent cholera that Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has set out. Actively take measures to support epidemic prevention; support farmers in the locality. Positive propaganda information, not to affect consumption and livestock. Ensure the market operates normally.
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