Tien Giang province urgently implements solutions to respond to African swine fever

ABO - On March 6, the Tien Giang province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a conference to urgently implement solutions to respond to African swine fever in Tien Giang province.

At the conference.

Up to this point, in Vietnam, there are seven provinces and cities having pigs infected with African swine cholera and disease trends tend to spread from the North, Central to the South, through pig transport and products with pork ingredients. Meanwhile, Tien Giang province is the province with the largest number of pigs in the Mekong Delta with about 600,000 pigs, 32 slaughtering and quarantine establishments exporting out of the province with about 1,000 pigs/day and night and especially the National Highway 1A through five districts, so that the risk of spreading African swine cholera is very high.

In this situation, the Tien Giang province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development urged localities to urgently implement solutions to respond to African cholera epidemic, focusing on solutions such as information wide spread of epidemics among people, close monitoring of slaughtering processes at establishments, quarantine at pig collecting establishments, organizing disinfection of breeding environment, inspecting the undertaking implementation of restaurants about not using pork of unknown origin.

A representative of the Tien Giang province Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary speaks at the conference. Photo: thtg.vn

The Tien Giang province Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary will organize training courses and seminars on African swine cholera and prevention measures, etc... In particular, starting on March 5, 2019, Tien Giang province has established 2 temporary animal quarantine at My Loi bridge (Go Cong Town) and Than Cuu Nghia Commune (Chau Thanh District) to control the transport of pigs and pork products, thoroughly preventing pathogens from provinces and another city ton infect pigs in Tien Giang province.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by HUU TAM)