DDC: African Swine Fever not Contagious for Humans

[Jonathan Fairfield]

DDC: African Swine Fever not Contagious for Humans

 

 

BANGKOK, (NNT) - Livestock related agencies in various provinces are strictly monitoring the African swine fever situation while the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has confirmed that the disease is not transmitted from animals to humans.

 

DDC Director General Dr. Suwanchai Watthanayingcharoenchai, said today that the DDC has been working closely with the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) to implement African swine fever monitoring and preventive measures by focusing on continuous and integrated cooperation from all relevant agencies in all sectors and at all levels. There are currently African swine fever outbreaks in neighboring countries, including Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, China and Mongolia. The DDC emphasized that the African swine fever can’t be transmitted from animals to humans but people are advised not to eat raw pork.

 

In Khon Kaen, one of the northeastern provinces with a large number of pig farms, Khon Kaen’s Somsak Jangtrakul along with the head of the Khon Kaen Provincial Office of Livestock Development, and the head of Chum Phae District Animal Quarantine Checkpoint, inspected Somboon Farm in Muang Khon Kaen district in order to prevent any spread of the African swine fever outbreak. Local pig farmers are asked to be on alert if more than five percent of pigs raised on a large farm die within two consecutive days, because there is likely to be an outbreak. For pig farms with fewer than 50 pigs, the farm operator has to monitor the situation if two pigs or more die within one day.

 

Nan Provincial Office of Livestock Development has declared a surveillance zone and set up an operations center to monitor the control of African swine fever. Early this month, the DLD’s officials conducted a survey of about 50,000 pigs in the province and found no pigs on the farm had fallen ill or died. As for control measures in the transfer of pigs, and pig carcasses, as well as pig-related products into and out of Nan, Animal Quarantine Checkpoint 5 seized many pig-related products and sent them to the laboratory for examination but the disease was not found. It has also been alerting the public to African swine fever through broadcasting vehicles, and in leaflets and posters at the entrances and exits at border checkpoints.

 

Source: http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG190627163654761

 

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[bangkokfrog]

Agreed, It only affects members of the pig family... a timely warning for politicians!