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Five days ago Taiwan's BAPHIQ (Bureau of Animal Plant Health Inspection & Quarantine) announced the detection of ASF Positive Pork Products Brought In By Passengers From Vietnam, which immediately led to concerns that the virulent pig disease had spread out of China to a neighboring country.
This was a scenario envisioned by the FAO more than 6 months ago (see FAO: African swine fever (ASF) threatens to spread from China to other Asian countries), and today we have confirmation of 3 Vietnamese farms in two provinces (Thái Bình and Hưng Yên) have been confirmed infected.Reuters has a very brief report (see below), and following that we have more details from the Vietnamese media. As of this writing, no formal announcement appears on the MARD (Vietnam's Agriculture Ministry) website.
African swine fever detected on three Vietnam farms: animal health department
HANOI (Reuters) - African swine fever has been detected on three farms in northern Vietnam, the Animal Health Department said on Tuesday.
Authorities have culled all the pigs on the farms located in Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces, southeast of the capital Hanoi, the department said.
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This translated report from Lao Dong.
The Department of Animal Health officially announced: African swine flu has entered Vietnam
LDO | February 19, 2019 | 16:38
In the afternoon of February 19, 2002, the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) officially announced a press conference in Vietnam that found eight cholera swine outbreaks in Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces.
Information on African swine flu (ASF), Department of Animal Health said, in Hung Yen city (Hung Yen province), ASF virus has been detected in 2 households, Mr. Duong Van Vu (Team 5). , Dao Dang village, Trung Nghia commune, TP.Hung Yen) and the household of Mr. Le Xuan Tinh (Cua Nhu 2 village, Yen Hoa commune, Yen My).
Upon receiving the information, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) instructed the central, local and local authorities at all levels to destroy all 33 of the pigs. raising households Mr. Duong Van Vu and 101 pigs of Mr. Le Xuan Tinh's household; General cleaning, antiseptic spraying continuously for households with epidemics, access roads and epidemics and high-risk areas.
Hung Yen's agriculture and rural development sector urgently established quarantine, strictly managing the transport, slaughtering and consumption of pork products in epidemic areas; total review of the situation of pigs in the commune and other localities in the area. Organize sampling to test pig households around households with outbreaks.
After the test, in the vicinity of the household of Mr. Vu's family, he gave a negative result. Test results of pigs in the neighborhood of Mr. Tinh's family are waiting for test results.
In Thai Binh province, 6 households in 4 villages of Dong Do commune, Hung Ha district have been found to have ASF.
By this time, 123 pigs of livestock households have been completely destroyed. Veterinary agencies and local authorities have carried out general cleaning, spraying disinfectants continuously in areas with epidemics, access roads and epidemics and high-risk areas; establishment of quarantine latch, strict management of transportation, slaughtering and consumption of pork products in epidemic areas; total review of the situation of pigs in the commune and other localities in the area.
It is good that after organizing the sampling to test pig households around the household, there are negative results.
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While ASF doesn't pose a threat to human health, it can be devastating to pig production. Given the dismal progress in containing the ASF virus in Eastern Europe, Russia, and most recently China (see DEFRA map below), the prospects for successfully halting this virus remain slim.
