African swine fever recurs in many communes of Dien Chau

Dien Thai commune puts up signs in the area where African swine fever has just occurred. Photo: Xuan Hoang

In Dien Thai commune (Dien Chau), on March 3, the veterinary agency had results of samples of sick pigs of Mr. Tran Trung Kien's family in hamlet 2 tested positive for African swine fever. This is a herd of pigs raised at a pig farm outside his residential area.

Immediately after the outbreak, the local authorities of Dien Thai commune destroyed the entire herd of pigs, including 1 sow and 13 piglets of Mr. Kien's family, and at the same time implemented epidemic prevention and control solutions according to regulations of the Veterinary Department.

According to the reporter's records on the afternoon of March 4, in addition to the pigs that were confirmed to be infected with the disease, it was shown that at Mr. Tran Trung Kien's family in hamlet 2, Dien Thai commune, there was also a sow and a herd of piglets that were sick, suspected of being infected with African swine fever.

"The commune has set up checkpoints and banned people from entering.pig transport"Go out of the epidemic area; provide chemicals and lime powder for families to disinfect and prevent epidemics, and at the same time propagate on the commune's loudspeaker system so that people know" - Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dai - Chairman of Dien Thai Commune People's Committee said.

At the farm of Mr. Tran Trung Kien in Hamlet 2, Dien Thai Commune, there are sick pigs. At the same time, the family has carried out disinfection work according to the direction of the commune. Photo: Xuan Hoang

In Dien Nguyen commune, the diseaseAfrican swine feveralso recurred from February 23 in some households. On March 2, another pig farming household was infected. Currently, local authorities are implementing epidemic prevention solutions according to regulations of the Veterinary Department.

According to data from the Dien Chau District Agricultural Service Center, during Tet, African swine fever recurred in some communes: Minh Chau, Dien Loc... and then the epidemic was controlled. However, since February, the epidemic has recurred in 3 communes: Dien Nguyen, Dien Phu and Dien Thai, with 5 households having pigs that had to be destroyed.

To effectively prevent and control the epidemic, the district directed localities to step up propaganda work so that people know and implement epidemic prevention solutions, the most important of which is to do a good job of disinfection and not transport pigs in and out of epidemic areas.

Dien Chau district currently has about 27 thousand pigs, a significant decrease compared to the time before the outbreak of African swine fever in early 2019.