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<TABLE id=apex_layout_271110100662109808 class=formlayout summary=""><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap align=right></TD><TD noWrap align=left>14-APR-2010</TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Subject</TD><TD noWrap align=left>PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax, porcine - China: (NX)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Date: 12 Apr 2010Source: Guyuan Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Department [edited]<http://www.nxgy.gov.cn/article/201004/783.html>At 8 pm on 29 Mar 2010, the Jingyuan County Animal Disease Prevention and Control
Date: 12 Apr 2010Source: Guyuan Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Department [edited]<http://www.nxgy.gov.cn/article/201004/783.html>At 8 pm on 29 Mar 2010, the Jingyuan County Animal Disease Prevention and Control
received a report from the Dawan Township Veterinary Station saying that swine deaths had occurred for unknown reasons on Zhuzhule Farm in Dongzhuang Village, requesting assistance with diagnosis.
The Jingyuan County Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center quickly sent officers and technical personnel to the scene. Based on epidemiological survey, clinical symptoms, and etiological investigation, anthrax was confirmed. The site was closed off and other response measures taken. 101 swine on Zhuzhule Farm were culled and safely disposed of, and the area was strictly closed off and disinfected.--Communicated by
an Silver <dgsilver@yahoo.com>[Our thanks to Dan for finding this report.Ningxia is a very small province in mountainous country in north-central China. Pigs rarely get anthrax on their own, as they have a measure of resistance. The number affected (101) and the time of year (spring, not summer) suggest that this is the result of some contaminated feed fed to these pigs on this pig farm. Pigs will get infected from scavenging carcasses, usually dead sheep or cattle -- it is not unknown for them to be fed carcasses tossed into the pen -- but it is the wrong time of year for sheep/cattle cases. If one large pig farm is affected, there will be others fed from the same batch of feed. The feed will have been contaminated from having inadequately sterilised bone meal added to it from rendered dead stock, probably further east in China. We have seen this also in Central Russia and elsewhere.For a map of Ningxia, go to:<http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/21/>.:tiphat:http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f..._BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,82254</PRE>
an Silver <dgsilver@yahoo.com>[Our thanks to Dan for finding this report.Ningxia is a very small province in mountainous country in north-central China. Pigs rarely get anthrax on their own, as they have a measure of resistance. The number affected (101) and the time of year (spring, not summer) suggest that this is the result of some contaminated feed fed to these pigs on this pig farm. Pigs will get infected from scavenging carcasses, usually dead sheep or cattle -- it is not unknown for them to be fed carcasses tossed into the pen -- but it is the wrong time of year for sheep/cattle cases. If one large pig farm is affected, there will be others fed from the same batch of feed. The feed will have been contaminated from having inadequately sterilised bone meal added to it from rendered dead stock, probably further east in China. We have seen this also in Central Russia and elsewhere.For a map of Ningxia, go to:<http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/21/>.:tiphat:http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f..._BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,82254</PRE>