The latest news of African swine fever: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region confirmed the swine fever epidemic!

"African swine fever" broke out in August last year and has continued until now, but it has not been completely eliminated.

Although many epidemic areas have lifted the blockade, African swine fever is still detected in new areas, and around July 5, the Ministry of Rural Agriculture announced that African swine fever "African swine fever" was detected in Gangbei District, Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It broke out in August last year and has continued until now, and it has not been completely eliminated.

Although many epidemic areas have lifted the blockade, African swine fever is still detected in new areas, and around July 5, the Ministry of Rural Agriculture announced that African swine fever was detected in Gangbei District, Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Let's take a look at the latest epidemic of African swine fever.

The latest swine fever epidemic in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in July

It is understood that on July 6th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs received a report from the Animal Disease Prevention Center of China, and a pig farm in Zhongli Village, Zhongli Township, Gangbei District, Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region confirmed the epidemic situation of African swine fever. There are 744 pigs in this pig farm, 42 of which are sick and die 1 pig.

After the outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture in rural areas immediately took measures such as blockade, culling, harmless treatment and disinfection to cull and treat dead and sick pigs harmlessly. In addition, it is forbidden to transport all pigs and their products out of the blockade, and it is forbidden to transport pigs into the blockade.

20 18-20 19 African swine fever occurred repeatedly. Why didn't the epidemic stop?

African swine fever is an acute, hot and highly contagious infectious disease of pigs caused by African swine fever virus, which is not pathogenic to humans and is not zoonotic.

However, after pig infection, the morbidity and mortality can be as high as 100%.

African classical swine fever virus has a huge and complex genome and many protective layers. It is found that there are no commercial therapeutic drugs and preventive vaccines in the past hundred years. It has superior viability in vitro, it is not afraid of cold, dirty and salty, especially low temperature, and can survive in frozen environment for several years.

Why didn't African swine fever stop? After investigation, it is found that there are various loopholes in the prevention and control system since the front-end link, including the system of quarantine of pig origin, fixed-point slaughter and centralized quarantine, which was once considered to have played an important role in ensuring the quality and safety of pig products, and may even become the fuse to promote the spread of the epidemic.

Veterinary station, traffic quarantine and designated slaughterhouse, which were important epidemic prevention checkpoints in the original system design, have become perfect distribution centers for virus transmission.

Sick pigs suspected of carrying African swine fever virus are stamped with quarantine tickets at veterinary stations, sold to vendors who collect pigs from village to village or designated slaughterhouses at a low price of as low as one or two yuan or even a few cents per catty, and finally served to refrigerators and dining tables of thousands of households.

The epidemic situation of swine fever in Africa continues, and pig farmers strictly abide by the "seven essentials" measures for prevention and control, namely, improving the responsibility system for animal epidemic prevention, fulfilling the obligation of epidemic reporting, implementing the disinfection system, treating animals harmlessly, observing the quarantine declaration system, observing the introduction requirements, and establishing breeding files.