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Blue-ear disease is constantly on the attack northern hog farms

Published: Wednesday, May 09, 2012
A pig is vaccinated against blue-ear disease in a farm within the northern province of Thanh Hoa's Yen Dinh District. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Hue
HN — New breakouts of blue-ear pig disease have happened within the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Lao Cai, raising the entire quantity of infected provinces to 6, stated Hoang Van Nam, mind of Animal Health Department underneath the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday.

He stated there's a bad risk the disease continues distributing among northern provinces.

To date, up to 50 % from the 20,000 pigs with blue-ear disease during these six provinces of Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Nam Dinh, Phu Tho, Lao Cai and Bac Ninh happen to be culled.

Of these provinces, Yen Bai is ravaged most seriously using its six districts impacted by the condition.

He stated the failure from the provinces to quickly identify the condition and control the transport and slaughtering from the infected pigs has brought towards the distributing from the outbreak.

Relevant government bodies in certain places only got reviews from the disease after it had made an appearance within their pigs for many days. It had been thus quite late to consider preventive steps to prevent multiplication, stated he.

As well as, only 100,000 doses from the vaccine remain and when the condition is constantly on the spread, the vaccine is going to be depleted.

In dealing with this case, the ministry has suggested the Pm permit the import more vaccines.

Deputy minister Diep Kinh Tan requested your pet Health Department and places to carefully manage the transport and slaughtering of pigs to prevent the transmission from the disease in addition to take effective measures to quickly identify the condition as quickly as possible.

He stated that it's essential to raise awareness, especially maqui berry farmers, concerning the blue-ear pig disease to ensure that they are able to positively take part in discovering and confirming the condition and taking preventive steps.

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