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 ...
Millions of pigs have been culled in China and Vietnam as a U.N. food agency urges Asian governments to make containing virulent African swine fever their top priority. With an announcement by the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization that infections have spread to Laos, some ...
North Korea ignores South's calls for joint efforts in fight against African swine fever
Seoul said Wednesday that Pyongyang has so far ignored its calls for joint efforts to stem the spread of highly contagious African swine fever following an outbreak near North Korea's border with China. South Korea's Agricultural Ministry on Wednesday said that blood tests of pigs ...
South Korean troops stationed along the world's last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in the face of a new infiltration threat from the nuclear-armed North: fever-stricken wild boar. An outbreak of African swine fever that has cut swaths through China, Vietnam ...
In bid to prevent more outbreaks of swine fever, two Aichi Prefecture farms to ship pigs early
The Aichi Prefectural Government plans to have two farms facing a high risk of being contaminated with swine fever ship their pigs ahead of schedule to prevent the spread of the disease, informed sources said. The early shipments, based on a request by the central ...
Infectious form of African swine fever virus detected for first time in Japan, in meat from China
The agriculture ministry said the discovery of the virus has prompted a decision to strengthen measures against illegal imports of livestock products.
