Efforts to prevent and control African swine fever

Veterinary staff guide people on biosecurity measures in livestock farming.

Since the beginning of the year, African swine fever has occurred in 142 districts, towns and cities in 39 provinces and cities nationwide, causing 13,655 pigs to become sick and pigs in the same pens to be destroyed. In Lao Cai, at the end of May, African swine fever occurred in 2 households in Van Ban and Bao Yen districts, causing 5 pigs to become sick, with a total weight of 350 kg destroyed. The cause was that farmers did not properly implement biosecurity measures, causing the disease to arise and spread.

Van Ban district sprays disinfectants in areas where African swine fever has occurred.

In Nam Ma commune (Van Ban), African swine fever broke out, causing 2 pigs to be infected, with a total weight of 70 kg destroyed. Immediately afterwards, the People's Committee of Van Ban district established a Steering Committee for Animal Disease Prevention and Control at the district and commune levels to focus on drastically implementing disease prevention and control measures. The district strictly controlled the slaughtering and transportation of pigs and pig products in and out of the epidemic area, destroyed infected pigs, thoroughly disinfected and quickly extinguished the outbreak, prevented the epidemic from spreading and prolonging; and reported the epidemic situation according to regulations.

Spray disinfectant in livestock trading areas to limit the outbreak and spread of disease.

Faced with the risk of disease outbreaks and spread to other localities in the area, the Provincial People's Committee directed relevant agencies, local authorities and pig farmers to implement disease prevention and control measures. For localities where no disease outbreaks have occurred, biosecurity measures must be strictly applied and the causes of disease outbreaks must be analyzed, lessons learned, and appropriate measures must be taken.

With a scale of more than 500 pigs per litter, the pig farm of Ms. Dao Thi Vuong in Xuan Quang commune (Bao Thang) always takes proactive measures to prevent and control diseases, especially African swine fever. Ms. Vuong shared: For large-scale farms like my family, just a little bit of subjectivity and negligence can easily lead to disease outbreaks, causing great damage.

Before entering the livestock area, Ms. Dao Thi Vuong in Xuan Quang commune (Bao Thang) strictly implemented disinfection measures (wearing specialized boots, wading through a disinfection pit, washing hands with disinfectant...).

Therefore, the work of disease prevention and control is strictly implemented by Mrs. Vuong's family. At the entrance and exit of the barn, the family arranges a disinfection pit, changes labor protection for people entering and exiting the livestock area, has a quarantine pen for raising newly imported pigs; the barn area is sprayed with disinfectant twice a week, sprayed in 3 layers of protection from the outside of the livestock area, the corridor and inside the barn, each area is sprayed with a suitable medicine, at the same time limiting people from entering and exiting the livestock area. From food to items brought into the barn are all disinfected. In addition, the family also disinfects the walkway area and around the barn 1-2 times a week to limit the emergence and spread of pathogens.

In addition to the timely and drastic direction of localities, households with many years of experience in pig farming have also proactively implemented measures to prevent and control epidemics. Mr. Nguyen Van Tan in Son Hai commune said: Disinfecting barns and isolating livestock, with the motto "nothing in, nothing out" is a priority measure to prevent and control African swine fever. These days are the peak time for selling and bringing in new pigs, so every day I pay attention to checking the health of livestock, being highly vigilant against sources of infection from outside through traders and means of transporting pigs.

For many years, Mr. Tan has maintained 40 sows and more than 300 pigs. With a closed breeding process, self-sufficient breeding stock, and good disease prevention, his family's pigs are not affected by disease.

Thanks to good disease prevention and control work, the livestock farming activities of Mr. Nguyen Van Tan's family in Son Hai commune were not affected by the epidemic.

Bao Thang district currently has 104 thousand pigs, accounting for 1/4 of the province's total pig herd. Pig farming is the main occupation of thousands of households in the district. To protect livestock, the district People's Committee and functional units have directed the People's Committees of communes, towns, and livestock households to resolutely, synchronously, and effectively implement measures to prevent and control African swine fever; strengthen monitoring for early detection of epidemics; accelerate the construction of slaughterhouses and manage the slaughter of livestock and poultry.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh, Deputy Head of Bao Thang District Veterinary Station, said: In order to prevent the outbreak and spread of disease, the district has provided 1,600 liters of chemicals to communes and towns to organize the Month of sanitation, disinfection and sterilization of livestock environments. Vaccination work for livestock has been accelerated.

Bao Thang district veterinary officers recommend that people take measures to protect their livestock.

Faced with the risk of an epidemic that could arise and spread to other localities in the province, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested districts, towns and cities to direct district-level professional agencies and commune-level authorities to resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement measures to prevent and control African swine fever; strengthen surveillance and early detection of the epidemic; take samples for testing; declare the epidemic to manage, monitor, localize, thoroughly handle the outbreak, and trace the origin of the outbreak.

Livestock farmers need to be proactive in preventing and controlling African swine fever.

At the same time, promote propaganda and mobilize pig farmers to proactively invest funds to buy vaccines to prevent African swine fever for their pigs; communes, wards and towns strengthen propaganda, guidance and mobilize pig farmers to thoroughly apply biosafety measures in livestock farming, proactively clean and disinfect the livestock environment; strictly control from the stage of breeding, food, drinking water, apply artificial insemination measures for pigs... fully vaccinate pigs according to the instructions of specialized agencies.

To help livestock farmers effectively prevent and control African swine fever, authorities and localities continue to strengthen control of animal slaughter and the transportation of livestock, poultry, and animal products in and out of the area; strictly handle violations according to regulations...

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