Thailand on Red Alert in Bid to Stop ‘Pig Ebola’ Crossing Border

By Randy Thanthong-Knight  and Anuchit Nguyen

 

African swine fever reported in Hong Kong and more Vietnamese regions in MayDominic Carey

 

Thailand, one of Asia’s top pork producers, is intensifying efforts to hold off a lethal pig virus that’s causing havoc as it spreads across the region.

 

African swine fever -- a disease that kills nearly all the pigs it infects -- has been spreading through Asia from China and Mongolia to Vietnam and Cambodia. Millions of pigs have been culled, creating a global protein shortage and saddling farmers and food businesses with billions of dollars in costs.

 

“We’re on red alert for the pig virus,” Anan Suwannarat, the permanent secretary in Thailand’s Agriculture Ministry, said in an interview. “We’re trying everything to prevent it from spreading to Thailand.”

 

Full story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/thailand-on-red-alert-in-bid-to-stop-pig-ebola-crossing-border?srnd=markets-vp

 

Bloomberg: 2019-05-19

I doubt Thai authorities will give us the facts , real time !!!  rather blame blame blame..

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by mok199

Expect an increase in usage of dog meat across Asia.

1 hour ago, Nowisee said:

Expect an increase in usage of dog meat across Asia.

I'm all for that.  I can nominate a couple of hundred on my estate running wild; causing accidents; spreading diseases.

In any case I thought a Thai University had perfected a cure for Ebola and lung cancer? (This latter for Chiang Mai residents.)

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

The pigs may have more sense than the rest of us

Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan seem to have managed to keep the disease at bay.....................

4 hours ago, mok199 said:

I doubt Thai authorities will give us the facts , real time !!!  rather blame blame blame..

They probably wouldn't know if pigs die in isolated cases as it has no effect on humans apparently.

 

"African swine fever virus is a contagious viral disease impacting only pigs, notpeople, so it is not a public health threat or food safety concern."

2 hours ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

Possibly not but did you bother to read the llnked article?

They have detected the virus in a number of cases where importation of meat was stopped at a border.

Do the pigs have many expensive watches?

43 minutes ago, grumbleweed said:

The pigs may have more sense than the rest of us

Being predominately muslim countries, I doubt that pork is on the menu.

Isn't it completely harmless to humans? 

How about canines? Do they die from it? 

6 hours ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

Prawit already has it

6 hours ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

Probably in your food right now, soaking in the wonderous broth, flavouring the noodles, and being BBQ'd

Why, when I see "Thailand" & "Red Alert" in the same sentence do I have a "O dear" moment? ????

3 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Probably in your food right now, soaking in the wonderous broth, flavouring the noodles, and being BBQ'd

Doesn't affect humans so just adds some flavor. What are they going to do with all the carcasses? Seems like a waste to throw them away.

 

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/african-swine-fever

Edited May 19, 20197 yr by DrTuner

2 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Probably in your food right now, soaking in the wonderous broth, flavouring the noodles, and being BBQ'd

Ah, the cheap & tasty food so many love about Thailand ????

16 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Doesn't affect humans so just adds some flavor. What are they going to do with all the carcasses? Seems like a waste to throw them away.

 

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/african-swine-fever

Hopefully they won't learn from the Chinese:

 

https://www.kinderworld.org/videos/meat-industry/pigs-burned-alive-china

7 hours ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

Early deaths of pigs in small numbers will be quickly cut up & sold off locally, not going through the usual channels... only when the first signs of large deaths will they come clean or should I say clean-ish.

1 hour ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Prawit already has it

Excellent. As long as the virus culls the right pigs, I'd say "let it spread."

Need better border controls to stop wild pigs entering on VOA.

All wild pigs must be able to show 800,000 in the bank and have full medical insurance.

1 hour ago, CGW said:

Why, when I see "Thailand" & "Red Alert" in the same sentence do I have a "O dear" moment? ????

Not sure what you just ate  causing your flatulence perhaps ? ????????????

I'm all for that.  I can nominate a couple of hundred on my estate running wild; causing accidents; spreading diseases.
In any case I thought a Thai University had perfected a cure for Ebola and lung cancer? (This latter for Chiang Mai residents.)

And HIV


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1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Need better border controls to stop wild pigs entering on VOA.

All wild pigs must be able to show 800,000 in the bank and have full medical insurance.

Border controls won't help as you know pigs can fly

guaranteed  certainty  now theyve  announced  that  then

12 hours ago, Nowisee said:

Expect an increase in usage of dog meat across Asia.

bonus!!

China is not sending us their best pigs.

Just saying.

8 hours ago, legend49 said:

Do the pigs have many expensive watches?

Not sure about that, but they have full immunity.

 

That's why nobody could identify the fever in Thailand.

If it can happen it will happen. It's already spreading in europe.

The virus can live in the soil for a long time so if they bury the infected and dead pig on the farm other pigs will 'nose' it and pick up the virus. Or, if one pig dies and the farmer, to save money feeds it to his other pigs  and a couple of days later sells some to another farmer etc etc

Less than a week from infection to death but luckily

( so far ) it doesn't transmit to humans or any other animals. Ticks can also spread it and nature has a way to change things at very short notice.

It will get here and all the best intended efforts won't stop it.

Soon coming, the 1000 baht pork chop.

11 hours ago, zydeco said:

Looking at that map, I don't see how it is not here already. Probably just hasn't been diagnosed and reported yet.

Just Not reported you mean?