No African swine fever epidemic, government agency assures

By THE NATION

 

 

There is no African swine fever virus (ASFV) epidemic in Thailand, the Department of Medical Sciences has confirmed.

 

ASFV is contagious to animals in the pig family, and its host is warthogs while soft ticks are vectors. This virus is not contagious to people but it can have an economic impact, the department’s director-general, Opas Karnkawinpong, said.

 

ASFV is difficult to handle because presently there is no vaccine to prevent pigs from being infected by the virus. Moreover, the virus is very durable and can contaminate products produced from pork, he added.

 

Nearly all the infected pigs get sick and die. 

 

Numerous countries have increased their strictness as well as measures to control and anticipate an ASFV epidemic.

 

In Thailand, a meeting of pathogens and animal toxins committee had urged Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to issue an announcement to increase the strictness level in monitoring ASFV.

 

The minister signed the order on October 31, and it came into effect on December 19.

 

ASFV has been determined to be a virus in the third pathogen group, according to pathogens and animal toxins act, instead of the second group as before. “Every time one wants to purchase, sell, possess, import, or export ASFV, they have to ask for permission,” the director-general added.

 

The announcement specified that any operation related to ASFV is allowed only in the Department of Livestock Development’s labs, Opas said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379865

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-12-27

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In that case, be afraid be very afraid!

And expect the price of pork to sky-rocket soon.

I'll file this story next to reduction in rabies

African Swine Fever has been in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and China for many months, and it is now in northern Sumatra. As the Thai government has no policy of compensating farmers (or so I believe), those farmers who have suspicions about their animals are likely to kill them quickly rather than face bankruptcy.

Eat Mor Chikin.

If ASF was/has been detected in Thailand, the story would probably not be released..

We've stopped eating pork for some time now....and do not trust the govt or the private sector to relate any honest news.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There is no African swine fever virus (ASFV) epidemic in Thailand, the Department of Medical Sciences has confirmed.

The economy is in dire straits, whose going to admit the pork industry has an epidemic.

At the first sign of this the pig will be off to market PDQ !

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to issue an announcement to increase the strictness level in monitoring ASFV.

 

The minister signed the order on October 31, and it came into effect on December 19.

Safety first! Clearly in good hands.

The PM said only today that he is troubled by fake news, so is this part of it?

How is a photo of 2 MP's related to this story. ????

1 hour ago, bangkokfrog said:

The PM said only today that he is troubled by fake news, so is this part of it?

Debatable; this swine flu was old news 3 months ago, so, near impossible to be fake news today. Semantics maybe or timeline sensitive; eat pork this year because the price in non-news terms is not-predicted to go up.

That's what they said about the bird flu years ago. After thousands of chickens died the try to blame it on a storm. A week later after continuous reports of dead chickens they finally admitted Thailand had bird flu.

Ok no fever but l.have seen alot of swine around Nana 

We done need no African swine fever. We already have our own!