Cabinet okays Bt148m to prevent outbreak of African swine flu

By THE NATION

 

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THE CABINET on Tuesday approved a Bt148.54-million budget for implementing measures to prevent the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), the agriculture minister said.

 

Agriculture Minister Grisada Boonrach said the Cabinet agreed to add this issue to the national agenda and approved the budget of carrying out necessary measures. The budget will be disbursed over three fiscal years – Bt53.6 million in 2019 fiscal year, Bt52.41 million in 2020 and Bt42.51 million in 2021.

 

The budget will be used to implement measures for monitoring the disease and for building furnaces to destroy contaminated pig carcasses. 

 

Grisada explained that the ASF virus can survive if the infected animals are buried, so it would be safer to destroy the carcasses in special furnaces. He added that the Agriculture Ministry decided to propose these measures after the outbreak spread to 18 countries since 2018, including 10 countries in Europe, four in Africa and four in Asia. 

 

He said there have been 113 occurrences of the disease in 28 provinces in China, 10 in Mongolia, 221 occurrences in 17 provinces in Vietnam and one in Cambodia. 

 

Since the virus has been detected in neighbouring countries, the Agriculture Ministry fears the virus will spread into Thailand, which is why it is seeking funds to implement preventive measures, Grisada said. 

 

According to the ministry, Thailand has 210,978 pig farmers.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30367436

 

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NO mention of washing stations, this virus can be transported on shoes etc, 

spending money on after the fact of an out break, 

hygienic practises are enforced on how many of the 210,978 estimated pig farmers, do these farmers,

have regular visits from the inspectors from the agriculture ministers department.

From my vision on actual pig hobby farmers in my region I doubt very much.

If the cabinet wishes to provide me with 150m baht, I can be instrumental and probably 100% confident that I can prevent Thailand from contracting "

Ebola.

The Black death.

Zombie flu.

Musterfakarrightus

over the next three years!!

 

To clarify, I would expect 150m Baht for the prevention of each!

No brown envelopes either - just me alone!

That's a nice retirement fund for some nearing the end of their employment !

Good luck with preventing the spread of the virus by burning the carcasses... I don't quite get that approach?

 

Can only wonder how much of that money will actually get to prevent anything 

15 hours ago, leeneeds said:

NO mention of washing stations, this virus can be transported on shoes etc, 

spending money on after the fact of an out break, 

hygienic practises are enforced on how many of the 210,978 estimated pig farmers, do these farmers,

have regular visits from the inspectors from the agriculture ministers department.

From my vision on actual pig hobby farmers in my region I doubt very much.

Where I live is a big cattle area ,we have just had a big outbreak of Foot and mouth disease ,the main reason it spread was lack of hygiene, 90% of farms no foot dips no disinfection of any kind ,and I know of 2 farms that got it from dogs, dogs that just roam the streets ,they have owners but they are not bothered in keeping the dogs under control ,

But saying that we also have a lot of pig farms, most are owned by the big farming companies, CP, Betagrow.

 They biosecurity is good, farms are a closed area to non-pig personnel and they have regular inspections by the company vets, have a word with TV's Thoongfoned, his wife has a big pig farm, with a lot of rules and regs.they should not be a problem.

But, as you say it is the local guy with his 20-30 pigs where the problems will be, and a big Thai problem lack of education, on how a disease is spread like only to day a locale guy woth a few beef cattle said that Foot and Mouth can be spread by flys. 

52 minutes ago, kickstart said:

Where I live is a big cattle area ,we have just had a big outbreak of Foot and mouth disease ,the main reason it spread was lack of hygiene, 90% of farms no foot dips no disinfection of any kind ,and I know of 2 farms that got it from dogs, dogs that just roam the streets ,they have owners but they are not bothered in keeping the dogs under control ,

But saying that we also have a lot of pig farms, most are owned by the big farming companies, CP, Betagrow.

 They biosecurity is good, farms are a closed area to non-pig personnel and they have regular inspections by the company vets, have a word with TV's Thoongfoned, his wife has a big pig farm, with a lot of rules and regs.they should not be a problem.

But, as you say it is the local guy with his 20-30 pigs where the problems will be, and a big Thai problem lack of education, on how a disease is spread like only to day a locale guy woth a few beef cattle said that Foot and Mouth can be spread by flys. 

Thai farmer is correct about flies,  From Science Direct (see google)

Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Vesicular Stomatitis Pathogenesis

Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a highly contagious picornavirus and has been eradicated from the United States. Vesicular stomatitis is caused by a rhabdovirus and is intermittently eradicated from the United States. [...] Sheep and goats are relatively less susceptible than cattle, particularly to vesicular stomatitis.

 

The viruses are spread by aerosol and mechanical vectors and primarily colonize skin or mucous membranes. Milking machines, flies, birds, and humans all may be important mechanical vectors.

 

 

Edited April 10, 20197 yr by rabas

Its a pity they can not approve some money to prevent the forest burning next year,

which you know is going to happen,but can freely spend money on something that

may not happen.

regards worgeordie

Doesn’t matter what they try to do, injustice can’t  last forever, karma will get its revenge on us humans due to the cruel way we raise those animals, good luck, I went vegan last month 

23 hours ago, rabas said:

Thai farmer is correct about flies,  From Science Direct (see google)

Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Vesicular Stomatitis Pathogenesis

Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a highly contagious picornavirus and has been eradicated from the United States. Vesicular stomatitis is caused by a rhabdovirus and is intermittently eradicated from the United States. [...] Sheep and goats are relatively less susceptible than cattle, particularly to vesicular stomatitis.

 

The viruses are spread by aerosol and mechanical vectors and primarily colonize skin or mucous membranes. Milking machines, flies, birds, and humans all may be important mechanical vectors.

 

 

Having worked with cattle for a lot of years F/M disease cannot be spread from milking machines, the milk it's self, yes, birds and humans, and mechanical yes. 

The big outbreak in the UK in 2001 was due to the above, not flies, here in Thailand our local outbreak was the above, not flies, we are talking about house flies, never known a house flie fly 10-15 km ,because that was the distance between outbrakes.and note the word  May Be