Pig from South Cotabato butchered in Davao City yields ASF
to order veterinary officials in these towns to intensify their biosecurity measures and ban the movement of hogs and pork products.
The South Cotabato Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) bared that it has culled since March more than 400 heads from backyard hog raisers in two municipalities.
PVO reported on April 28 that the outbreak has been contained and began a 90-day clearing process in the affected areas. But the disease persisted and spread because hogs continue to be transported from the ASF-infected areas, the report added.||| |||buy xenical online with |||
Veterinarians have warned that ASF is a highly contagious viral disease among pigs that generally results in high mortality. The virus does not affect people and there is no impact to human health.
Sepulveda said continuous cleaning and disinfection are being done at the slaughterhouse. “We gave them disinfectant and there is continuous surveillance and monitoring,” she added.
The discovery of the ASF infected animal prompted authorities to do daily city-wide antemortem and postmortem inspections of hogs and hog carcasses.
Stockyards in Davao City were closed after the stockyard at the Bankerohan Public Market yielded an animal that tested positive for ASF, which prompted authorities to cull all hogs in that place.
Sepulveda said their personnel have been making the rounds and closely monitoring public markets and stockyards, especially the city’s slaughterhouses, cold storage facilities and processing plants.
Sepulveda said CVO has already tightened border inspection of hogs being transported into the city.||| |||buy imodium online with |||
CVO requires farmers with hog traders from ASF hit areas to present proper documents from the DA that show their animals are not infected with ASF. (Rommel G. Rebollido / MindaNews)