What should I do if I get African swine fever

African swine fever is an infectious disease caused by African swine fever virus, with short incubation period, great harm to pigs and extremely high mortality. What should pigs do if they get African swine fever? How to prevent it?

What should I do if I get African swine fever

For pigs infected with African swine fever, compulsory control and eradication measures such as isolation, culling, destruction and disinfection should be taken to quickly extinguish the epidemic. Moreover, if the pigs in the main stadium are found to be infected, they should report to the relevant departments in time to prohibit animals from non-epidemic areas from entering the epidemic areas.

How to prevent African swine fever?

At present, there is no vaccine that can effectively prevent African swine fever in the world. High temperature and disinfectant can effectively kill the virus, so it is the key to prevent and control African swine fever to do a good job of biosafety protection in farms.

1. Strengthen the construction of bio-safety tube control system in pig farms. Strictly control personnel, vehicles and susceptible animals to enter the farm; Personnel, vehicles and articles entering and leaving the farm and its production area shall be strictly disinfected and fumigated.

2. Use disinfectant with excellent effect, strengthen disinfection, and wet pens and utensils before using foam disinfectant.

3. Make an emergency plan for pig farm diseases, and start the emergency plan quickly if there is any sudden disease.

4. Actively cooperate with local animal disease prevention and control institutions to carry out disease monitoring and investigation, especially in cases of suspected African swine fever symptoms and unexplained deaths, and report to the local veterinary department in time.

Basically, African swine fever is incurable, so it is necessary to report the disease in time and cull the sick pigs in time.