Hungary detects swine fever virus in wild boars

[Niko]

Hungary detects swine fever virus in wild boars
Tuesday, 23, January 2007 11:16:00 AM
Hungary's animal health authorities have detected the swine fever virus in three wild boars in northern Hungary, but they said it may have been caused by vaccination in nearby Slovakia.

"Yes, we have found three wild boars in which we found the swine fever virus," Reuters cited Chief Veterinarian Mikl?s S?th as telling a press conference on Tuesday.

Bulgarian veterinary health authorities announced on 17 January that they had detected an outbreak of swine fever in the northeast of the country and were preparing to slaughter 164 pigs to prevent its spread.

The disease caused the death of four pigs and ten more animals were also said to be infected at a farm in the town of Smyadovo.

What is CSF

Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest) is a highly contagious disease of pigs and wild boar. It causes fever, skin lesions, convulsions and usually (particularly in young animals) death within 15 days. (Source: Wikipedia)

The most common method of transmission is direct contact between healthy swine and those infected with CSF. The disease can also be transmitted through contact with body secretions and excrement from infected animals. Healthy pigs coming into contact with contaminated vehicles, pens, feed, or clothing may contract the disease. Birds, flies, and humans can physically carry the virus from infected to healthy swine. Swine owners can inadvertently cause infection through feeding their herds untreated food wastes containing infected pork scraps. (Source: Animal and Plant Health inspection Service (APHIS))

2007.01.23 11:14

Japan halts Hungarian pork import on swine fever cases

HUNGARY - Japan has banned import of Hungarian pork just two days after Hungarian animal health authorities detected the swine fever virus in three wild boars in the northern part of the country.

Hungary's entire pig market could collapse due to the ban, said L?szl? Kov?cs, Chairman-CEO of meat processor Pick Szeged.
Kov?cs said the halt of pork sales to Japan causes a serious headache to both his company and the entire sector, as Japan is one of Hungary's key export markets, business daily Napi Gazdas?g said on Thursday.

Japan buys up to 15% of Hungarian pork exports.

Hungary's small pig stock could easily become too big to bear and prices may start to plunge, he added. Certain pork parts, i.e. spare rib roast and ham, can be sold nowhere else but in Japan, he explained. These parts may be sold in Europe but only at a very low price. If the export of these becomes impossible, the meat industry will cut back production and procurement prices will slump, Kov?cs said.

The poultry sector may also find itself in a dire situation, as the European Commission has just announced the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain had been found in dead geese in Hungary. This is the first case of bird flu outbreak in the European Union this year.

Croatia and Serbia have already banned the import of Hungarian poultry and poultry products.

2007.01.25 09:10

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Hungary detects swine fever virus in wild boars

there are wild boars in Indonesia.

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[gsgs]

Re: Hungary detects swine fever virus in wild boars

hopefully we won't get in Europe this Chinese Pig High Fever Disease
which killed millions of pigs