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Just barely a year after Classical Swine Fever (CSF) reappeared in Japan after an absence of 26 years (see Japan: MAFF Confirms Classical Swine Fever Outbreak), we've news of Japan's 41st farm outbreak, which is the first to be reported from Saitama Prefecture.
The outbreak was traced back to a Saitama farm after sick pigs were shipped to a slaughterhouse in Yamanashi Prefecture.The (translated) report from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture follows)
Confirmation of suspected affected animals of swine fever in Saitama Prefecture, about (41 case was in Japan)
Ryowa first year September 13,
the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Today, suspected affected animals of swine fever has been confirmed in a farm in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture.
We are taken all possible measures for the quarantine measures for the disease.
Interview in the field, thank you for your cooperation as strictly refrain from such that there is a risk that cause the spread of the disease.
1. Overview of the occurrence farm
Location: Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
breeding situation: 678 head
2. Background
(1) September 12 (Thursday), carried out from the slaughterhouses of Yamanashi Prefecture, from the fact that pigs that were shipped there was a report of that exhibit abnormal, the on-site inspection by animal health inspectors for Yamanashi Prefecture is the slaughterhouses as well as, Saitama Prefecture, we have conducted a site inspection by animal health inspectors for shipping source of Saitama Prefecture farm.
(2) the same day, because the suspicion of swine fever is caused by the inspection at the Livestock Hygiene Service Center, send the material collected at slaughterhouses to Noken mechanism Animal Health Research Institute (Note), was subjected to a genetic analysis, today ( September 13 (Friday)), for pigs shipped to slaughterhouses, as well as found to be affected animals of swine fever, that for feeding pigs of Saitama Prefecture farm is a pseudo affected animal was found.
(Note) specialized research institutions on the only animal health in Japan
It has been more than a month since the last OIE report (#34) on farm and wild boar CSF outbreaks in Japan, so we should be getting another update soon.
CSF, while similar in appearance and impact to African Swine Fever (ASF), is caused by a different virus. Both, however, are highly contagious among pigs, and can be economically devastating for pork producers, but neither disease poses a direct human health threat.And as they battle CSF, Japan must also remain alert for any signs of ASF (African Swine Fever), which has already devastated the pig industries of China, Vietnam, and Mongolia and has recently moved into Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, and the Philippines.
