Japan may expand swine fever vaccination areas to unaffected prefectures
Agriculture minister Taku Eto on Friday suggested the possibility of expanding the swine fever vaccination program to cover prefectures where the infectious disease hasn't entered yet. Six unaffected prefectures have asked the agriculture ministry for vaccinations, which started being carried out in infected prefectures last ...
The agriculture ministry will seek to allow pig culls as a preventive measure against African swine fever, something not currently permitted by the law, if the disease is detected in Japan. The ministry will submit a bill to the Diet next year to revise the ...
U.S. pork prices rising as fatal pig disease cuts global meat supply, says Tyson CEO
U.S. pork prices rose in recent weeks at a time when they would normally be falling, as a fatal pig disease in China is tightening global meat supplies, the chief executive of Tyson Foods Inc. said on Tuesday. The price increase is probably the first ...
Japanese government to avoid using term 'hog cholera' to mitigate concern over swine fever
The government said Monday it will avoid using the term "hog cholera," opting instead for "classical swine fever," as officials hope to allay public concerns about the outbreak of the disease, which is harmless to humans. "We will standardize the term 'CSF' to counter reputational ...
Pig vaccinations start at farms in six prefectures as swine fever spreads in Japan
Gifu and five other prefectures with confirmed swine fever cases started vaccinating pigs at farms Friday to prevent the infectious disease from spreading further. The move marked the first swine fever vaccinations in Japan since April 2006, when preventive vaccinations were discontinued. It is uncertain, however, ...
An agriculture ministry panel has approved preventive swine fever vaccinations for pigs being raised in prefectures with confirmed cases of the disease. The proposal to revise the state's disease prevention guidelines was presented Thursday by the animal hygiene subcommittee of the Council of Food, Agriculture ...
Gunma likely to start vaccinating pigs as swine fever spreads through Japan
Japan will likely add Gunma to the list of pig-vaccination areas following the confirmation of swine fever in two wild boars in the prefecture, the farm ministry said Friday. The government will seek expert opinions on vaccination before the governor makes a final decision. Gunma’s ...
Frozen pork threatens to put the chill on China National Day festivities
China's supermarkets are topping up their meat counters with frozen pork from state reserves, after prices of the nation's favorite protein source surged to budget-busting levels, threatening to mar this week's National Day festivities. Pork, which has a prominent place at nearly every Chinese dinner ...
Japan to use marker vaccine in battle against swine fever epidemic
The farm ministry plans to use a marker vaccine for swine fever to make it easier to identify unvaccinated pigs, in the face of the ongoing epidemic of the disease in the country, officials have said. The ministry asked the Cabinet Office's Food Safety Commission ...
In bid to contain swine fever outbreak, Japan's farm ministry announces plan to vaccinate pigs
The ministry saw the move as inevitable after the first outbreak in the country in 26 years was confirmed in September last year.
Japan still struggling to contain swine fever a year after outbreak began
Japan remains in an uphill battle to contain swine fever a year after confirming its first case of the infectious disease in 26 years. Infections have been found at pig farms in Gifu, where the outbreak began on Sept. 9 last year, and seven other ...
Swine fever spreads to eastern Japan one year after outbreak
Pigs at a farm in Saitama Prefecture have been infected with the swine fever virus, the agriculture ministry has said, as authorities continue to struggle to contain the highly contagious disease one year since it first emerged. The case reported Friday in the Kanto region ...
