Hai Duong proposes vaccination against African swine fever

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a conference to discuss solutions to prevent African swine fever

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development requested localities to review and accurately count the pig herd and summarize the need for vaccination against African swine fever and send it to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development so that the Department can report to the Provincial People's Committee to consider allocating funds to carry out the work of vaccinating against African swine fever for the pig herd. This is one of the contents discussed and agreed upon by delegates at the conference on solutions to prevent African swine fever, chaired by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, held on the afternoon of July 16.

In addition to proposing vaccination against African swine fever, delegates discussed many issues surrounding disease prevention such as deploying, implementing drastic, synchronous and effective disease prevention solutions; assigning forces to proactively deploy disease surveillance to villages and residential areas to promptly detect and advise farmers.

Coordinate with specialized agencies and local authorities to strengthen inspection and supervision, detect outbreaks, and thoroughly handle outbreaks on a small scale. Proactively implement measures and policies to support livestock farmers suffering losses due to epidemics in accordance with the law. Timely detect, prevent and strictly handle cases of buying, selling, and transporting sick animals, animals, and animal products of unknown origin, and not yet quarantined to prevent African swine fever and other animal diseases...

Representative of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine reported on the livestock situation and epidemics in Hai Duong province.

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine strengthens inspection and supervision, detects outbreaks, especially African swine fever, ensures early detection and timely handling; coordinates with specialized agencies under the People's Committees at district level and local authorities to organize the destruction of sick pigs, suspected sick pigs, and dead pigs (if any); guides localities to proactively implement policies to support livestock farmers suffering losses due to epidemics in accordance with the provisions of law...

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