China: 2021 African Swine Fever

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Source: https://www.republicworld.com/world...n-swine-fever-in-piglet-truck-all-culled.html

Last Updated: 19th July, 2021 15:13 IST
China: Sichuan Province Reports African Swine Fever In Piglet Truck; All Culled
The Chinese province of Sichuan, announced that it had detected the African swine fever virus in piglets being illegally transported from other provinces.
Written By
Riya Baibhawi

The Chinese province of Sichuan, on Sunday, announced that it had detected the African swine fever virus in piglets being illegally transported from other provinces, but asserted that it does not have any reports of the virus inside the province this year. Since the beginning of this year, large number of swines have died in China’s top hog-producing province after it saw a resurgence of the infection. Experts have raised concern if it could further spread to the country’s south, causing massive repercussions to the largest pork consumer in the world. ...

 

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Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s...g-farms-and-raise-swine-fever-risks-1.1631221

China’s Deadly Floods Hit Pig Farms and Raise Swine Fever Risks
Bloomberg News,
4h ago

(Bloomberg) -- The heavy rains that pounded Henan province in central China will cause damage to some hog farms in the major pork-producing region and potentially trigger fresh cases of African swine fever.

Small farmers will be severely affected by the torrential rains and there will be a “significant” short-term impact on logistics, including the transportation of hogs, according to Shanghai JC Intelligence, an agriculture consulting firm.

A bigger worry is the potential outbreak of African swine fever, said Lin Guofa, a senior analyst at consultancy Bric Agriculture Group. Floods increase the risk of disease as the virus can be found in pig’s blood, feces and tissue. Healthy hogs may be infected through contact with sick pigs or contaminated feed and water.

While China has largely recovered from the outbreak of African swine fever that started in 2018, the situation remains complicated and a worsening spread could harm the goal of replenishing pork supplies in the top consumer. The nation has reported 11 incidents of the disease this year and the emergence of new strains with milder symptoms and a longer incubation period makes it difficult to identify cases immediately, the farm ministry said Tuesday...

 

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China sees another rise in deadly virus among pig herds
An outbreak that began two years ago appeared to be in check but has surged again in recent weeks.
By Economist
September 4, 2021 — 8:00am


Less than two years ago Chinese officials warned that the spread of a deadly and highly transmissible virus was threatening the country's economic stability and its people's prosperity.

Curbing the outbreak was a "major political task" said Hu Chunhua, a deputy prime minister and member of the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. He said his instructions on how to tame the disease were to be treated as a "military-style order".

Hu was speaking in August 2019, months before COVID-19 was identified. He was referring to another virus — the one that causes African swine fever. The disease is harmless to humans but deadly to the pigs that provide one of China's most important sources of food and a livelihood for tens of millions of the country's farmers.

In contrast with its remarkably effective battle against COVID-19, China has failed to conquer swine fever.

With one of the world's highest rates of pork consumption, China is normally home to about half of global pig stocks. But its porcine population has been severely affected by a swine fever panzootic (the animal equivalent of a pandemic) that began in 2018 and has threatened herds in many countries.

It has wrought havoc in the supply of China's staple meat, creating wild swings in the prices of pork and feed grains. Officials say that in 2019 it resulted in the loss of between one-fifth and one-third of the country's pigs from disease or culling.

That year swine fever cost the industry between $50 billion and $120 billion, according to the Asian Development Bank. In 2020 stocks recovered swiftly. But by late last year infections began to rise again.

In July, officials said there had been 11 outbreaks of the disease since the beginning of 2021, twice the number reported in the whole of the previous year. The new hot spots are widely separated, with some in the far northeast and others in the southwest.

Officials hint at the scale of the problem. Efforts to control it, they say, are "complicated." But pig-industry insiders say the government is painting too rosy a picture. "It's out of control," says one. Only a small share of infections are being reported, say executives at several Chinese swine firms...

 

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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/africa-swine-fever-is-china-downplaying-another-disease-outbreak/a-59212422

Africa Swine Fever: Is China downplaying another disease outbreak?
China might praise its own success in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remains quieter about its fight against a rampant African Swine Fever outbreak at home.


During a teleconference more than two years ago, Chinese Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua urged health authorities to step up efforts to rein in a growing outbreak despite initial "positive results," and suggested that "enhancing quarantine and monitoring" measures would help prevent the spread of the virus.

Hu's comments came before the discovery of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Instead, he was referring to a different, far deadlier disease: African Swine Fever (ASF) — an illness that affects pigs.

Chinese officials first identified ASF in 2018 in Liaoning, a coastal province in China's northeast. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, ASF does not threaten human health. The disease, however, is highly virulent in pigs and mortality rates approach 100%.

ASF is of particular concern in China, the world's top pork consumer and home to roughly half of the world's pigs. Given the country's enormous pig population, ASF could turn China into a significant reservoir of disease and pose a threat to China's neighbors in the region if it becomes endemic.

Threats to food security

This year, China reported 12 ASF cases to the OIE, the intergovernmental body that tracks animal diseases, down from a high of 105 in 2018. Except for a small bump in cases earlier this year, ASF numbers have consistently declined, according to official figures.

Some industry experts, however, believe that China may be obfuscating African Swine Fever's actual toll on hog herds by under-reporting infection numbers, and painting an artificially rosy picture.

 

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Immediate notification
African swine fever virus (Inf. with) , China (People's Rep. of)
...
COUNTRY OR ZONE
ZONE

DISEASE
African swine fever virus (Inf. with)

STARTED ON
22-10-2021

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

CONFIRMED ON
30-10-2021

REASON
Recurrence

CAUSAL AGENT
African swine fever virus

ENDED ON
-

DISEASE CATEGORY
OIE-listed

REPORTED ON
08-11-2021

LAST OCCURRENCE
22-05-2019

...

Outbreaks

ob_92116 - Taiyang Village,Liji Township

OUTBREAK REFERENCE
outbreak13 20211031

STARTED ON
23-10-2021

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UNIT
Farm

NUMBER OF OUTBREAKS
-

ENDED ON
-

AFFECTED POPULATION DESCRIPTION
-

APPROXIMATE LOCATION
Taiyang Village,Liji Township

FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Hainan

SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Hainan

THIRD ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Wanning

GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
Lat : 18.774166

Long : 110.343055


SPECIES MEASURING UNIT SUSCEPTIBLE CASES DEATHS KILLED AND DISPOSED OF SLAUGHTERED/KILLED FOR COMMERCIAL USE VACCINATED
Swine NEW Animal 1063 1 0 1063 - 0
TOTAL Animal 1063 1 0 1063 - 0
- NEW Animal 1063 1 0 1063 - 0
TOTAL Animal 1063 1 0 1063 - 0
...
https://wahis.oie.int/#/report-info?reportId=42294

 

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Source: https://www.infocampo.com.ar/china-confirma-nuevos-casos-de-peste-porcina-africana/

China confirms new cases of African swine fever
The outbreak happened in the northeast of the country, in the province that completely surrounds the capital, Beijing.
12.17.2021

The Chinese authorities confirmed this week the detection of an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the province of Hebei, located in the northeast of the country, which completely surrounds the capital Beijing and has access to the sea.

The cases were detected in two trucks that were in the coastal city of Qinhuangdao, where the vehicles came from other provinces and transported 245 animals in total, of which 9 were dead.

 

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Immediate notification
African swine fever virus (Inf. with) , China (People's Rep. of)
...
COUNTRY OR ZONE
ZONE

DISEASE
African swine fever virus (Inf. with)

STARTED ON
11-12-2021

ANIMAL TYPE
TERRESTRIAL

CONFIRMED ON
13-12-2021

REASON
Recurrence

CAUSAL AGENT
African swine fever virus

ENDED ON
-

DISEASE CATEGORY
OIE-listed

REPORTED ON
19-12-2021

LAST OCCURRENCE
11-04-2019
...
Outbreaks

ob_94031 - G102 Highway checkpoint for Animal health supervision,Bianqiangzi Village,Mengjiang Township

OUTBREAK REFERENCE
outbreak 15 20211214

STARTED ON
12-12-2021

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UNIT
Other

NUMBER OF OUTBREAKS
-

ENDED ON
-

AFFECTED POPULATION DESCRIPTION
-

APPROXIMATE LOCATION
G102 Highway checkpoint for Animal health supervision,Bianqiangzi Village,Mengjiang Township

FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Hebei

SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Qinhuangdao

THIRD ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Qinhuangdao

GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
Lat : 40.037507

Long : 119.810676


SPECIES MEASURING UNIT SUSCEPTIBLE CASES DEATHS KILLED AND DISPOSED OF SLAUGHTERED/KILLED FOR COMMERCIAL USE VACCINATED
Swine NEW Animal 245 9 9 236 0 0
TOTAL Animal 245 9 9 236 0 0
- NEW Animal 245 9 9 236 0 0
TOTAL Animal 245 9 9 236 0 0

...
https://wahis.oie.int/#/report-info?reportId=44824

 

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