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Northern Vietnam: PRRS swine disease outbreak

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Shiloh

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=37235
Last Updated: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:42:45 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Pig disease recurs in northern Vietnam


Animal health authorities reported Sunday an outbreak of the blue-ear pig disease, or Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), in the northern province of Ha Tinh after a pause of four months nationwide.

The agency said a total of 2,460 pigs in local farms have been recently infected with the virus.

Local animal health centers are requested to take swift action to quarantine, sterilize infected areas, cull affected pigs, and restrict transport of pork products in and out of outbreak areas.

PRRS in pigs is caused by the Lelstad virus, which causes ears to turn blue, appetite loss, high fever, miscarriage, premature delivery, coughing, respiratory problems, and death in extreme cases.

Reported by Quang Duan
 
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Strict ban on transporting cattle from blue ear disease infected areas
02/04/2008 -- 12:28 PM
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Hanoi (VNA) ? Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on April 1 signed an official dispatch urging localities to take drastic measures to prevent the spread of blue ear disease (PRRS), in particular banning the transport of cattle from infected areas.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the epidemic is spreading, causing great losses to provinces. It warned that farmers? sales of cattle in infected areas would lead to the disease being wide spread.

Minister Phat asked infected localities to promote the epidemic monitoring, cull all infected pigs and ban the transport of cattle and cattle products to other areas.

Infected localities are also required to set up quarantine stations on main roads leading to into the locality to monitor transportation round-the-clock.

Other localities should increase their inspection of pig and pig product transports, promote epidemic supervision in pig raising households as well as trade of pig and pig products, the minister said. When, a locality detects a suspected blue ear case, it must quarantine the area and take samples of the pigs for tests before the killing all the pigs.-Enditem :tiphat:
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http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2008/feb/bakerchina.shtml
> death of more than 100 million pigs in China during the past year.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/80075.php
> the PRRS strain that killed an estimated 1 million pigs in China last year
> ...The current outbreak in Vietnam started in June this year, and by the end of July
> an estimated 28,000 pigs were infected of which 20 per cent have died

http://www.moeasmea.gov.tw/fp.asp?xItem=1315&ctNode=259&mp=2
> Last year, around a million pigs in China died of PRRS

http://www.native-english.ru/voa/2007-08-27-voa2
> The spokesman said 257000 pigs were infected with the
> virus this year. [August 2007] 68000 of them died. Many more were destroyed.
> ...An outbreak of infectious disease killed as many as one million pigs in China last year.
> China's top veterinary health official said this past June that blue-ear disease was the cause
> of most of those deaths
> Commerce Ministry spokesman said this month that China exported 62000
> metric tons of pork in the first half of the year. That compared with pork exports of
> 246000 for all of last year.




looking for the quartal official pig-count numbers in China ?
 
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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/04/content_7918373.htm

Pig disease hits two more Vietnamese provinces
www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-04 13:36:56

HANOI, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has recently stricken Vietnam's northern Thanh Hoa province and central Quang Nam province, raising the total affected localities in the country to three.

The disease has broken out in a district of Quang Nam, and hit 3,000 pigs in four districts of Thanh Hoa, local newspaper Young People on Friday quoted the provincial veterinary agencies as reporting.

However, the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has yet to confirm the outbreak in Thanh Hoa.

PRRS has hit pigs in the two central provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Nam, it said.

PRRS was first recognized in the United States in the mid-1980sand is now present in most pig producing countries. The symptoms include reproductive failure, pneumonia and increased susceptibility to secondary bacterial infection.
 
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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD class=tintop_title vAlign=top align=left>Blue ear epidemic raids central Vietnam</TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_date vAlign=top align=left height=20>16:31' 07/04/2008 (GMT+7) </TD></TR><TR><TD class=text vAlign=top align=left>
<TABLE class="image center" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=167 align=right fck_template="imagecontener"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=image_desc align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>VietNamNet Bridge ? The disease has attacked four provinces in the central region: Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Nam.

Nghe An province announced the existence of blue ear epidemic on Sunday, April 6 and its compensation for families that have pigs culled, VND20,000/kg.

Two days ago, over 200 pigs got ill and died of blue ear disease in two communes in Dien Chau district, Nghe An province. Local authorities have banned the trade and transport of pigs from and to disease-stricken areas but local people are still trying to unload their pigs.

In Ha Tinh province, blue ear epidemic has been reported in 35 communes, with over 7,000 ill pigs and 5,300 pigs culled.

In Thanh Hoa province, the disease has spread to 134 communes, affecting 30,600 pigs, including 7,500 culled.

The local government is giving VND20,000/kg to breeders whose pigs are culled and has asked all slaughtering houses to stop operating and banned the transport and trade of pig and pork meat in the whole province from April 6 to 15.

In Quang Nam province, seven months after the local administrative lifted the ban on pork, the disease appeared again on April 3.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on April 4 issued another dispatch asking blue-ear-hit provinces to cull all ill pigs immediately; take strict measures to prevent the disease; and regularly report the situation to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Government Office.

Previously, Phat issued a dispatch on April 1 asking northern and central provinces to supervise blue ear and ban the transport of pigs from disease-stricken areas.:tiphat:
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=ds vAlign=top width=435 height=0>ast Updated: <!--2008-04-07 11:05:09 todaysDate = Date(08, 04, 07, 11, 05, 09); --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript> dayarray = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday","Saturday"); montharray = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April","May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"); todaysDate = new Date("April 07, 2008 11:05:09"); document.write(dayarray[todaysDate.getDay()] + ", " + montharray[todaysDate.getMonth()] + " " + todaysDate.getDate() + ", "); //if (todaysDate.getYear() < 1000){ //document.write(todaysDate.getYear() + 2000); //} else { document.write(todaysDate.getFullYear()); //} document.write(" 11:05:09 Vietnam (GMT+07)"); </SCRIPT>Monday, April 7, 2008 11:05:09 Vietnam (GMT+07) </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top><!--This begin of the news --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="100%" colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="50%" height=30> E-mail to a friend </TD><TD width="50%">Print version</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left height=35>Blue-ear epidemic recurs in four provinces
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</TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR><TR><TD class=cap align=left colSpan=2></TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The blue-ear epidemic which afflicts pigs has reappeared in the central province of Nghe An, the Animal Health Department reported Sunday. </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>
The recurrence raises the number of affected provinces nationwide to four, including Ha Tinh, Quang Nam and Thanh Hoa provinces.
The disease has stricken 208 pigs in the province?s Dien Chau District.
In addition, more than 30,600 pigs from ten districts in Thanh Hoa Province and nearly 7,100 pigs in Ha Tinh Province have been infected.
According to the agriculture ministry, the blue-ear disease, also known as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), first hit Vietnam last March, affecting thousands of pigs.
It was thought to be eradicated nationwide about four months ago, according to an official confirmation.
PRRS in pigs is caused by the Lelstad virus, which causes ears to turn blue, appetite loss, high fever, miscarriage, premature delivery, coughing, respiratory problems, and death in extreme cases.:tiphat:
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=numberdate vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#3a84fd height=16>Monday , Apr 07, 2008, Posted at: 18:17(GMT+7)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=thanh vAlign=top align=left>Millions of Pigs Culled as Epidemic Spreads</TD></TR><TR><TD class=tintop_text vAlign=top align=left>Those in charge of controlling the spread of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus have been too complacent, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong told a Sai Gon Giai Phong reporter.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=Image>Deputy Minister Bui Ba Bong talks about the government's measures against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus spreading in the central regions</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>​
The epidemic has spread across the central region and has developed in a complicated way.
Mr. Bong explained that some farmers sell their diseased pigs without veterinary supervision, which has caused a major outbreak in the central region.
The disease will spread north and south if those in charge of controlling the disease relax their guard, he added.

The public suspects that his ministry had a slow reaction to the disease, he said.
Since the pandemic started in the central province of Ha Tinh, the ministry has sent a dispatch instructing provincial authorities to tighten their supervision of the disease.
Yet it is difficult to supervise pig slaughter, sale and transportation due to a shortage of human resources. The disease spreads rapidly and farmers have little knowledge of how to prevent or control it.

Unscrupulous traders are cashing in by buying diseased pork at low prices and then selling it for full price. Diseased pork is often thrown into rivers and reservoirs because many farmers do not realize that this causes the disease to spread.

The deputy minister stressed that the Department of Animal Health plan to cull diseased pigs. The entire machinery of state must mobilize and take drastic action to fight this disease, he added.

Mr. Bong said that the Ministry of Agriculture provided guidance concerning breeding programs and inoculation, as well as the disinfection of disease-hit areas.

The Agriculture and Finance Ministries have agreed to a plan to provide compensation to farmers whose pigs are culled, but are waiting for the government?s approval.

To date, the outbreak has affect four central provinces, Ha Tinh, Quang Nam, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An.

Thanh Hoa has culled 41 million disease pigs. Veterinarians have done sterilization in affected areas. Inspectors are working round-the-clock to ensure that diseased pork is not transported out of affected villages.:tiphat:
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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD class=tintop_title vAlign=top align=left>Bird flu goes to the south and central region</TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_date vAlign=top align=left height=20>14:48' 09/04/2008 (GMT+7) </TD></TR><TR><TD class=text vAlign=top align=left>
<TABLE class="image center" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=200 align=right fck_template="imagecontener"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=image_desc align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>VietNamNet Bridge ? Bird flu has been recorded in the southern province of Tien Giang and the central province of Quang Nam, announced Bui Quang Anh, Head of the Veterinary Agency.

In Tien Giang, the disease was found in a flock of 1,500 ducks in Phuoc Lap commune, Tan Phuoc district. These ducks had received the first vaccination on March 1.

In Quang Nam, bird flu attacked poultry in Nui Thanh and Tien Phuoc district, where 428 ducks, which were not vaccinated, died.

According to Bui Quang Anh, bird flu could appear on a small scale in other provinces where poultry is not vaccinated.

As blue ear epidemic is spreading very quickly, the Veterinary Agency on April 8 asked related provinces and cities to address their supervision and control of transport of livestock.

So far, nearly 70,000 pigs in the central region have caught blue ear and a record high number of nearly 54,000 pigs have been culled, strongly affecting the animal husbandry sector of the four provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Nam.

?The total number of ill pigs is approximately 70,000, equivalent to the figure of last July, when the blue ear epidemic boomed. However, the loss this time is three times more than last year because only 20,000 pigs were culled last July while it is 56,000 at present,? said Bui Quang Anh. :tiphat:​
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=ds vAlign=top width=435 height=0>Last Updated: <!--2008-04-08 09:47:18 todaysDate = Date(08, 04, 08, 09, 47, 18); --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript> dayarray = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday","Saturday"); montharray = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April","May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"); todaysDate = new Date("April 08, 2008 09:47:18"); document.write(dayarray[todaysDate.getDay()] + ", " + montharray[todaysDate.getMonth()] + " " + todaysDate.getDate() + ", "); //if (todaysDate.getYear() < 1000){ //document.write(todaysDate.getYear() + 2000); //} else { document.write(todaysDate.getFullYear()); //} document.write(" 09:47:18 Vietnam (GMT+07)"); </SCRIPT>Tuesday, April 8, 2008 09:47:18 Vietnam (GMT+07) </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top><!--This begin of the news --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="100%" colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="50%" height=30> E-mail to a friend </TD><TD width="50%">Print version</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left height=35>Damage control
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</TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR><TR><TD class=cap align=left colSpan=2>Thanh Hoa Province is combating a PRRS outbreak which has sickened more than 40,000 local pigs, causing losses of around $1.8 million.</TD><TD align=left width=5></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Blue-ear pig disease has ravaged the central province of Thanh Hoa causing more than US$1.8 million in losses as authorities step up efforts to stem the outbreak. </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>The provincial administration of Thanh Hoa, which has witnessed more than 40,000 pigs succumb to the epidemic,:oops: has imposed a ban on the slaughter and sale of the animal and its derivative products starting from Sunday to next Tuesday, a local newspaper reported.
The provincial People?s Committee Chairman Mai Van Ninh also asked local districts to cull all afflicted pigs over a two-day period starting Sunday.
To date, more than 15,000 pigs infected with the blue-ear disease, also known in medical parlance as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), have been culled.
Around 774 epidemic checkpoints have been established at commune and district levels to prohibit locals from transporting pigs in and out of localities, while some communes have dug huge graves in preparation for mass extermination.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has been mobilized to meet with mountainous districts to forewarn the localities and instruct on procedures if an outbreak occurs.
Several communes have set up committees to manage culling efforts and distribute funds from reserve budgets to compensate households some VND20,000 (US$1.20) per kilogram of collected animal.
A local pig breeder said that some individuals have hesitated to cooperate with authorities? efforts since they did not know if they would receive financial support for culled stock.
?If we are informed that the People?s Committee will support us with VND20,000 for each kilogram of pig to be culled, all of us would be willing to hand over our sick pigs,? he said.
According to Chairman Ninh, the outbreak represents a phenomenon that can totally devastate the local economy.
?Therefore, it is necessary to swiftly develop a plan to thoroughly eradicate afflicted pigs,? Ninh said.
Although some areas have bolstered preemptive measures, other localities are lagging behind in the fight against the disease.
The head of a local animal health station said breeders had approached the agency to request specific medicine for pigs before March 28, yet no officials had informed him about the epidemic at that time.
?It was not until March 31, when I appointed a group to inspect each commune, that I realized the situation was critical,? he said.
A local newspaper also reported that pork products like nem chua (fermented pork roll) were still on sale along the section of National Highway 1A running through the province.
Devastated stock
Nguyen Van Thuyet, a pig breeder in Thieu Vien Commune, has a sow which gave birth to eight pigs.
Upon observing the signals of the strange disease, Thuyet quickly sold his eight piglets for a total sum of VND1.4 million ($86.8).
The piglets would have fetched VND4 to VND5 million ($248-$310) otherwise, according to Thuyet.
He confides that his family is dependent on the sow, which has fallen ill over the past few days.
?We are very worried,? Thuyet said.
?If the sow has been infected with the disease, we would have to cull it. How can we earn money then??
Le Thi Lan, who lives in Dong Son District, has had to give up three sows weighing nearly 500 kilograms.
She says they were her family?s most valuable assets which annually earned her nearly VND20 million ($1,240), helping to raise her children.
?At the beginning of this year we almost lost our crop; now we are faced with the blue-ear disease that is ravaging farmers,? Lan said.
Nguyen Tho Su in Thieu Vien Commune, meanwhile, says his pigs have been sick for a whole week, costing him nearly VND1 million ($62) to treat them.
Hundreds of families in Su?s commune have spent millions of dong treating their ill pigs because they have not been informed that there is no cure for PRRS.
FOUR CENTRAL PROVINCES HIT BY BLUE-EAR DISEASE
(UPDATED APRIL 6)​
<TABLE id=table1 width="100%" bgColor=#ffffcc border=1><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle bgColor=#0000ff>Province</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#0000ff>Number of affected communes, districts </TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#0000ff>Number of infected pigs</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffcc>Thanh Hoa</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>147</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>41,000</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffcc>Ha Tinh</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>36</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>7,200</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffffcc>Quang Nam</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>3</TD><TD align=middle bgColor=#ffffcc>300</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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Nearly 82,000 pigs in Vietnam's two central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh and northern Thanh Hoa province have recently infected with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), known as blue ear disease, according to a local veterinary agency on Thursday.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked local relevant agencies to kill all infected pigs to prevent the spread of the disease, the ministry's Department of Animal Health said.

The PRRS is now hitting four Vietnamese localities, Nghe An, HaTinh, Thanh Hoa and central Quang Nam province, said the department.

The PRRS was first recognized in the United States in the mid-1980s and is now present in most pig producing countries. The symptoms include reproductive failure, pneumonia and increased susceptibility to secondary bacterial infection.:tiphat:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90880/6390172.html
 
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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=37699

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:08:08 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Shallow pig graves stink out central communities


Residents in the north central province of Thanh Hoa are angry about the stench from the shallow burial of tens of thousands of pigs inflicted with blue-ear, a porcine disease.

According to commune residents in districts like Quang Xuong, Dong Son, Thieu Hoa and Trieu Son, the culled pigs infected with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), were covered with only a thin layer of soil.

About three or four days after the mass burial, the pits swelled and cracked oozing fowl smelling grease from the rotting pigs.

Residents said many pits were near residential areas and the fetid smell tortured them day and night.

Other pits were established near paddy fields, causing difficulties to farmers.

Authorities were trying to tackle the pollution by covering the graves with more soil, and spraying sterilizers and deodorants, the deputy head of the provincial Environment and Natural Resources Department, Tran Quang Trung, said.

Regulations specify pits must first be spread with sterilizers and at least one meter of soil should cover the buried animals.

According to the department as of Monday, over 123,000 pigs were reported with blue-ear in some 318 communes in 16 districts in Thanh Hoa.

Around 113,000 were culled.

The blue-ear epidemic has recurred in five provinces - Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Nam and Thanh Hoa in the central region and Lam Dong in the central highlands after it cleared for four months, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Monday.

The ministry has asked localities for stronger supervision and disease prevention, as well as timely culls and quarantine in accordance with standards.

The disease first appeared in Vietnam last March.

PRRS in pigs is caused by the Lelstad virus, which causes ears to turn blue, appetite loss, high fever, miscarriage, premature delivery, coughing, respiratory problems, and death in extreme cases.

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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD class=tintop_title vAlign=top align=left>Year?s first tropical storm heads for central coast</TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_date vAlign=top align=left height=20>10:56' 16/04/2008 (GMT+7) </TD></TR><TR><TD class=text vAlign=top align=left>
VietNamNet Bridge ? Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai called on ministries, sectors and localities to be vigilant as the country's first storm of the year, the Neoguri, was just 240km from the coast of the central provinces Quang Ngai and Khanh Hoa.
<TABLE class="image center" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=200 align=left fck_template="imagecontener"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=image_desc align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Hai said the storm was coming earlier than those in previous years. He asked ministries, sectors and localities to take caution, especially after the storm ends when floods could be expected.
According to the head of the National Steering Committee for Floods and Storm Control Cao Duc Phat, cities and provinces should warn fishermen in a timely manner, especially the nearly 9,000 fishermen still working near Truong Sa (Spratlys) archipelago and the sea area between Truong Sa and Hoang Sa (Paracels) archipelago. <snip>:tiphat:http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/04/778607/ This storm will help spead out the smells..and other ..stuff:(​
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=image_desc align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>VietNamNet Bridge ? The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has become the fifth province attacked by blue ear disease, after Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Quang Nam and Nghe An.

So far, around 137,000 pigs are reported as having the disease. 124,000 have been culled, a record high number.

In Nghe An, one week after announcing the blue ear epidemic, the disease has covered 27 communes with nearly 1,700 pigs culled.

In Thanh Hoa, up to 299 wards and communes have pig disease, totalling 115,000 ill pigs and 104,000 culled.

In Ha Tinh, 57 communes are reported as having blue ear epidemic. Of nearly 20,000 ill pigs, over 19,000 have been culled already.

The government has decided to allot VND120 billion to curb the epidemic.​
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HANOI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), known as "blue ear" disease, has recently hit Vietnam's central Thua Thien Hue province, bringing the total number of affected localities to six, according to local newspaper Labor on Wednesday.
By April 15, PRRS had stricken 434 communes and wards of 31 districts and towns of the six provinces of Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Quang Nam, Lam Dong and Thua Thien Hue in the central and central highlands regions, leading to the death and the forced culling of over 149,000 pigs, the newspaper quoted the country's Department of Animal Health as reporting. Thanh Hoa alone has 337 communes and wards hit by the disease with a total of over 134,000 affected pigs. PRRS was first recognized in the United States in the mid-1980s and is now present in most pig producing countries. The symptoms include reproductive failure, pneumonia and increased susceptibility to secondary bacterial infection. :tiphat:


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Re: Northern Vietnam: PRRS swine disease outbreak

Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/04/779050/
Blue ear disease hits pigs in northern Thai Binh Province
14:14' 18/04/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge ? Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has spread to the north, striking pigs in almost 100 households in Thai Binh Province.

The National Animal Diagnosis Centre confirmed on Wednesday that the pig samples from Nguyet Lang Village, Minh Khai Commune, Vu Thu District, sent for testing by the provincial Animal Health Department one day earlier, tested positive for blue ear disease.

Among almost 150 pigs destroyed to prevent the disease from spreading, 43 were sows.

The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry's Animal Breeding Department deputy director Nguyen Thanh Son had previously said that the loss of a sow was equivalent to loosing 1-1.5 tonnes of pork a year.

The Viet Nam Animal Health Department reported yesterday that 10,400 new pigs were confirmed as infected with the PRRS virus in 39 communes in the country.

About 13,000 sick pigs were destroyed yesterday.

The disease continued to spread to 20 other communes in central Thanh Hoa Province, the locality hit hardest since PRRS returned to Vietnam in early March.

Almost 147,000 pigs in 357 communes in this province were infected and more than 143,000 of them were destroyed.

The total number of pigs infected in the country since the disease returned now stands at nearly 186,400.

Other provinces hit by PRRS are Ha Tinh, Quang Nam, Nghe An, and Thua Thien - Hue in the centre and Lam Dong in the Central Highlands.

Meanwhile, other cities and provinces all over the country stepped up prevention measures to combat the disease. These measures include conducting stricter animal quarantines, inspecting slaughter houses, launching media campaigns to educate farmers how to combat PRRS, disinfecting farms, and setting aside funds to cope with the disease in a timely manner.

The Government announced, last week it would provide VND120bil (US$7.5mil) to curb PRRS in central provinces.

Emergency workshop

At a workshop yesterday, delegates blamed the recent outbreak of PRRS of pigs in northern provinces on a poor inti-epidemic system, shortage of funds and limited awareness of the importance of blue ear disease prevention and protection among farmers and veterinarians.

Delegates at yesterday's workshop pointed out that attention had only been paid to combating the disease rather than prevention.

"It is not really effective to destroy diseased pigs after the epidemic breaks," they told the workshop.

Many warned that northern provinces would suffer from a scarcity of pigs if the epidemic continued to spread as quickly as it has been.

They spoke of Thanh Hoa Province where blue ear disease has spread to an additional 20-30 communes everyday.

Participants at the workshop were told that many provinces and households were still trying to conceal the epidemic.

A series of measures were put forward during the workshop.

Speaking at the event, Agriculture and Rural Development Deputy Minister Bui Ba Bong stressed that due attention must be given to prevent pigs from spreading the disease by checking animals' origins. He also emphasised the need to raise awareness among farmers and veterinarians at the grassroots level.

(Source: Viet Nam News)
 
Re: Northern Vietnam: PRRS swine disease outbreak

15 million pigs in Vietnam , ~170000 died in the first 4 months 2008 = 3.4%

500 M pigs in China, 1M-2M died in 2007 = 0.3%

Plus sharp increase in pig-prices in China
are the Chinese numbers credible ?

can someone find the official number of pigs from the 2007-count ?
(statistical bureau or agriculture ministry, I don't remember,
we had it in earlier threads)

an update on pigprices were also good
 
Re: Northern Vietnam: PRRS swine disease outbreak

Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=37815

Last Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2008 13:01:22 Vietnam (GMT+07)
Pig epidemic spreads in north Vietnam


Blue ear pig disease has spread to the northern province of Thai Nguyen, raising to eight the total number of provinces affected by the disease, said the Animal Health Department Saturday.

According to the department, any province in which no new cases have been recorded in 21 days is considered no longer affected.

The disease, also known as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), has most recently hit two farrows of pigs in Phu Binh District?s Tan Duc and Phu Luong communes in Thai Nguyen.

On Friday, the epidemic hit 8,820 pigs in 35 communes nationwide, said the department.

According to the agriculture ministry, PRRS first hit Vietnam in March last year.

PRRS in pigs causes ears to turn blue, appetite loss, high fever, miscarriage, premature delivery, coughing, respiratory problems, and death in extreme cases.

The illness is caused by the Lelstad virus.
 
Re: Northern Vietnam: PRRS swine disease outbreak

Source: http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/220408/life_b.htm

Last updated: 15:45 - April 22, 2008
Blue ear disease in ten localities

Nhan Dan ? Blue ear disease has spread to the north, bringing the total number of infected provinces to ten.

On April 21-4, the Veterinary Diagnosis Centre announced the result of tested samples from three families in Quang Ha village, Yen Thang commune, Yen Mo district, Ninh Binh province, which were all positive for PRRS virus.

The village had a total of 670 pigs and 36 of which were ill. On the same day, the provincial Veterinary Department?s affiliate culled the pigs.

So far, the disease has hit Ha Tinh, Quang Nam, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Lam Dong, Thua Thien - Hue, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh.

In Thanh Hoa province alone, by April 21-4, the disease has spread to 450 communes, 25 districts and towns, with 173,925 pigs infected.
 
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