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Philippines checks for African swine fever as pig deaths rise

Published 08/19/2019, 02:23 PM
Updated 08/19/2019, 02:30 PM
Philippines checks for African swine fever as pig deaths rise

MANILA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines has set up a
crisis management team to determine if the deadly African swine
fever virus has reached the country after officials detected a
rise in pig deaths in some areas.
The Bureau of Animal Industry had reported an increased
mortality of pigs "raised by farmers in their backyards", but
further laboratory tests were needed to confirm any outbreak of
swine fever, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said on Monday.
The Southeast Asian nation last year put safeguards in place
to protect its $5 billion hog industry from the highly
contagious disease, for which there is no cure and no vaccine.
It has far banned pork and pork-based products from more
than a dozen countries, including Vietnam, Laos and China, where
the outbreak has spread throughout the mainland, as well as to
Hong Kong.
African swine fever causes high fever, loss of appetite,
hemorrhages, and death among domestic and wild pigs. It does not
pose a health risk to humans.
The crisis team will implement measures to "manage, contain
and control the suspected animal disease or diseases," Dar said
in a media briefing.
He had directed the bureau to conduct further confirmatory
laboratory tests, including sending blood samples to foreign
laboratories, to determine the cause of the pigs' deaths.
Dar declined to specify the areas where the deaths occurred,
and said the tests would be completed in two weeks at the
earliest.
The Philippines' import ban also covers pork and pork-based
products from Germany, North Korea, Belgium, Hungary, Latvia,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Moldova, South Africa, Zambia, and Mongolia.


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