Saturday, August 14, 2010

Vietnam: Ag. Min.: Blue Ear Strain Is More Virulent Than Last Year

13/08/2010
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Risk of new outbreaks in South

At the conference, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced a new decoding genetic information swine blue ear virus in the South. Accordingly, this is a highly pathogenic virus strains similar to the group viruses have caused disease outbreaks in the North earlier this year. The forecast appears a possibility of new outbreaks in South Vietnam is great.

Representatives of Hau Giang province, said the newly discovered blue ear pig disease in two districts but with the speed of spread as the days passed, only a few days to be of Hau Giang province.

According to Hoang Van Nam, current happenings in the blue ear pig southern provinces complex. In Soc Trang, Tien Giang, Dak Lak appeared in a large scale. Other provinces such as Long An, Binh Duong has also translated. The risk of epidemic continues to spread in the province and appeared in four other provinces in the same area is very high.

More serious, according to Nguyen Xuan Binh - Director of Veterinary Agency Region VI, for blue ear pig virus vaccination, the vaccine is not effective as desired, also good at reducing the number of pigs die than not prevent infected pork. Therefore, the most important is the implementation of biosecurity measures at farms.

Minister Cao Duc Phat direction: the virulence of the virus is now much higher than the previous year should be prevention and control at the local level should be much more drastic.

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