While there have been a lot of infected areas lifted the blockade, but there are new areas detected African swine fever, and around July 5, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a news release that the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guigang City, Hong Kong and North District detected an outbreak of African swine fever epidemic "African Swine Fever" from the outbreak of last year in August has continued to the present, and has not yet been completely eliminated. The government has not yet been able to completely eliminate the disease.
Although there have been a lot of infected areas lifted the blockade, but there are new areas detected African swine fever, and on July 5 or so, the Ministry of Rural Development and Agriculture issued a news release that the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guigang City, Hong Kong and North District detected an outbreak of African swine fever, the following to learn about the latest outbreak of African swine fever.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in July the latest swine fever epidemic
It is understood that on July 6, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs received a report from the Chinese Center for the Prevention of Animal Diseases, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guigang City, Hong Kong North District, Zhongli Village, a pig farm confirmed the diagnosis of African swine fever, the farm stocked 744 head of pigs, the incidence of 42 head, death 1 head.
After the outbreak, the Ministry of Rural Development and Agriculture immediately took measures such as blockade, culling, harmless treatment and disinfection to cull and harmlessly dispose of the dead and morbid pigs, in addition to banning all live pigs and their products from being transferred out of the blockade area and prohibiting the transportation of live pigs into the blockade area.
2018-2019 African swine fever streak, why the epidemic did not prevent?
African swine fever is an acute, febrile, high-contact infectious disease of pigs caused by the African swine fever virus, which is not pathogenic to humans and is not a disease of human or animal ****.
But when pigs are infected, the morbidity and mortality rates can be as high as 100 percent.
African swine fever virus has a large and complex genome, there are many protective layers, was found nearly a century ago there is no commercialized therapeutic drugs and preventive vaccines; it has a superb in vitro viability, it is not afraid of the cold, not afraid of dirty, not afraid of salty, especially resistant to low temperatures, in the frozen environment can survive for several years.
Why is African swine fever not prevented? The investigation found that since the front-end link began, the prevention and control system has appeared a variety of loopholes, including had been considered to ensure the quality and safety of pig products to play an important role in the pig origin quarantine, designated slaughter, centralized quarantine and inspection system, and may even have become a fuse that contributed to the spread of the spread of the epidemic.
Veterinary stations, traffic quarantine, fixed-point slaughterhouse, the original system design of these important epidemic prevention barrier, but has become the perfect staging ground for the spread of the spread of the virus.
The sick pigs suspected of carrying the African swine fever virus are stamped with quarantine tickets at veterinary stations and sold at prices as low as one or two yuan or even a few cents per catty to traders who collect pigs from villages or designated slaughterhouses, and then finally end up in the refrigerators and dining tables of thousands of households.
African swine fever epidemic, and pig farmers are strictly abide by the "seven" measures for prevention and control, respectively, is to improve the responsibility of animal epidemic prevention system, to fulfill the obligation to report the epidemic, the implementation of a good disinfection system, harmless treatment of animals, comply with the quarantine declaration system, comply with the requirements of the introduction of breeding, and the establishment of breeding records.